Abstract
Ethereum is an open source public blockchain platform with smart contract functions and a model of blockchain 2.0. Its market value ranks second in the world of encrypted electronic currencies, second only to Bitcoin. Ethereum uses the underlying blockchain network to implement decentralized distributed data computing and storage. This decentralized mechanism can effectively protect the security and privacy of data. We combed through the existing work on Ethereum, launched an ISP-level passive measurement against Ethereum’s underlying network, and collected the largest Ethereum connection data to date. In this article, we collect a 40GB data set containing tens of millions of nodes, provide the latest statistics of the four types of node discovery protocols as of May 2020, and reveal the basic connection properties of the underlying P2P network. And the node activity degree and corresponding relationship of the entire network are described and analyzed.
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This work is supported by The National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2020YFB1006100, No. 2020YFE0200500 and No. 2018YFB1800200) and Key research and Development Program for Guangdong Province under grant No. 2019B010137003.
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Xia, W., Li, Z., Li, Z., Xiong, G., Gou, G. (2021). EthSniffer: A Global Passive Perspective on Ethereum. In: Dai, HN., Liu, X., Luo, D.X., Xiao, J., Chen, X. (eds) Blockchain and Trustworthy Systems. BlockSys 2021. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1490. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-7993-3_6
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