Perseus: A tool for tracking the coordination of pump-and-dump crypto coin schemes

Image caption: Perseus consists of three components: real-time fetcher, temporal attributed graph generator, and mastermind detector. Image credit: arXiv (2025) – DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2503.01686. Article by Bob Yirka. Tech Xplore – March 24, 2025. PDF: Perseus: Tracing the Masterminds Behind Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Schemes.

A team of computer scientists and financial specialists at University College London has developed a tool to track the coordination efforts of pump-and-dump crypto coin scheme manipulators. They have published a paper on the arXiv preprint server describing their tool called Perseus, its purpose and how it works. […]

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