Financial Crimes in Web3-Empowered Metaverse: Taxonomy, Countermeasures, and Opportunities

Jiajing Wu;Kaixin Lin;Dan Lin;Ziye Zheng;Huawei Huang;Zibin Zheng
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Abstract

At present, the concept of metaverse has sparked widespread attention from the public to major industries. With the rapid development of blockchain and Web3 technologies, the decentralized metaverse ecology has attracted a large influx of users and capital. Due to the lack of industry standards and regulatory rules, the Web3-empowered metaverse ecosystem has witnessed a variety of financial crimes, such as scams, code exploit, wash trading, money laundering, and illegal services and shops. To this end, it is especially urgent and critical to summarize and classify the financial security threats on the Web3-empowered metaverse in order to maintain the long-term healthy development of its ecology. In this paper, we first outline the background, foundation, and applications of the Web3 metaverse. Then, we provide a comprehensive overview and taxonomy of the security risks and financial crimes that have emerged since the development of the decentralized metaverse. For each financial crime, we focus on three issues: a) existing definitions, b) relevant cases and analysis, and c) existing academic research on this type of crime. Next, from the perspective of academic research and government policy, we summarize the current anti-crime measurements and technologies in the metaverse. Finally, we discuss the opportunities and challenges in behavioral mining and the potential regulation of financial activities in the metaverse. The overview of this paper is expected to help readers better understand the potential security threats in this emerging ecology, and to provide insights and references for financial crime fighting.
Web3赋能元宇宙中的金融犯罪:分类、对策和机遇
目前,元宇宙的概念已经引发了公众对各大行业的广泛关注。随着区块链和Web3技术的快速发展,去中心化的元宇宙生态吸引了大量用户和资本涌入。由于缺乏行业标准和监管规则,Web3授权的元宇宙生态系统出现了各种金融犯罪,如诈骗、代码利用、洗白交易、洗钱以及非法服务和商店。为此,对Web3赋能元宇宙上的金融安全威胁进行总结和分类,以保持其生态的长期健康发展,显得尤为紧迫和关键。在本文中,我们首先概述了Web3元宇宙的背景、基础和应用。然后,我们对去中心化元宇宙发展以来出现的安全风险和金融犯罪进行了全面的概述和分类。对于每一种金融犯罪,我们都关注三个问题:a)现有的定义,b)相关的案例和分析,以及c)对这类犯罪的现有学术研究。接下来,我们从学术研究和政府政策的角度,总结了当前元宇宙中的反犯罪措施和技术。最后,我们讨论了行为挖掘的机遇和挑战,以及元宇宙中金融活动的潜在监管。本文的概述有望帮助读者更好地了解这一新兴生态中的潜在安全威胁,并为打击金融犯罪提供见解和参考。
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