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[Matt @matt55nado]

A "magical" look at our recent work: https://t.co/T9tBf0QaN8
Thanks to @martino_design and @turinginst

[Andrea Baronchelli @a_baronca]

New vid for "Mapping the NFT revolution: market trends, trade networks, and visual features"!

Come for the science stay for the art. Or other way around! Magic by @martino_design

See @turinginst blog https://t.co/oez2qvgD9B
Paper https://t.co/trmfxs3jiQ
https://t.co/rTusSMq0PQ

[Andrea Baronchelli @a_baronca]

New out!
An analysis of unprecedented breadth quantifies the online illicit trade of COVID-19 vaccines. Results corroborate concerns by @INTERPOL_HQ, @Europol etc.
+ Dark markets also offered fake proofs of vaccination, guides to get gov aids, etc. 1/
https://t.co/X9hwsRUs6K

[Andrea Baronchelli @a_baronca]

“Heterogeneous rarity patterns drive price dynamics in NFT collections” is out.

Successful collections share non-trivial rarity patterns. Investment-wise, rare NFTs are top. Rest is ~fungible (yep!)

Data (1.4M NFTs, 3.7M sales): https://t.co/d96Z7y0MIS
https://t.co/6gFodfABUW

[Elliptic @elliptic]

🚨Over $100 million worth of NFTs were publicly reported as stolen through scams between July 2021 and July 2022, netting perpetrators $300,000 per scam on average.
Head to https://t.co/u6iPLjXgpR to read our NFTs and Financial Crime Report.

#nft #crypto #aml

[Matt @matt55nado]

Our new working paper on NFTs is out ! Huge dataset analysed, clear results on the relationship between rarity and price. Have a look at it 👇

[Andrea Baronchelli @a_baronca]

"How rarity shapes the NFT market" is out!

https://t.co/t5sjYBo9j3

Rarer NFTs: (i) sell for higher prices, (ii) are traded less frequently, (iii) yield higher returns and (iv) are less risky / less prone neg returns.

Analysis on 1.3M NFTs in 410 collections traded 3.7M times.

[Matt @matt55nado]

A first comprehensive look at the darkmarkets ecosystem. We detected a fairly complex behavior! More on 👇

[Andrea Baronchelli @a_baronca]

"Emergence and structure of decentralised trade networks around dark web marketplaces", w @matt55nado &al is out.

The study is part of our ongoing research on dark web marketplaces (DWMs).

We now know that our initial picture was wrong, let's see why. 1/
https://t.co/E75eZq2pct

[Andrea Baronchelli @a_baronca]

Our dataset containing 6.1 million trades of 4.7 million NFTs has been downloaded 700+ times, and we hope they can help even more researchers.
Data: https://t.co/dcYv5r6gKW
Paper: https://t.co/t9RXrU4mBa
Awesome job by @matt55nado.

[OpenSea @opensea]

The best kept secret in web3🤣

[Matt @matt55nado]

So proud to announce that our NFT video is minted and you can buy it on OpenSea ! ...wait... We actually did't mint it 🤔🤔🤔
See the thread for a funny, and instructive, story 👇

[Andrea Baronchelli @a_baronca]

Just found out we are victim of a wonderful tale of (non)copyright laws and trolling in the NFT world. It's quite instructive, let me share it with you.

Last Oct we published a paper on NFTs, which we 'launched' with a video (by @martino_design, ofc).

https://t.co/rTusSMq0PQ

[db @tier10k]

Putin going through the binance KYC rn

[Tom Robinson @tomrobin]

Cryptocurrency donations in support of the Ukrainian armed forces are soaring - with almost $400,000 received so far today.
Learn more about the crypto-crowdfunding of the Russo-Ukrainian War, in this recent @elliptic blog: https://t.co/aTRwTsOkTj

[Elliptic @elliptic]

Wishing everyone the best this festive season #HappyHolidays

[Alberto Bracci @albe_bracci]

Happy to see this out as a preprint!
"Macroscopic Properties of buyer-seller networks in online marketplaces"
https://t.co/2AlmTYXGcK
Great *interdisciplinary* collaboration with @t8el @net_science @a_baronca @Abeer_90 and Jorn Boehnke
Explainer thread to follow!
1/6

[Andrea Baronchelli @a_baronca]

Reminder that you have *until Jan 3* to apply for this (very cool) postdoc position @turinginst! Work with me and many others to understand the dynamics of (de)centralisation in socio-technical systems.

[Motherboard @motherboard]

Wow! Who would have guessed! https://t.co/54OKRzd2QP

[FINTECH GLOBAL @Fintech_Global]

Well done to @elliptic for making it onto the #RegTech100 list.

The full list is here: https://t.co/xMqeQOwx36

#RegTech #FinTech

[Matt @matt55nado]

@sterlingcrispin @emollick Thanks for your great point! We decided not to differentiate between traders and humans because our dataset was too heterogeneous. For instance, we included also NFT-games, in which a user may make tons of trades (at least much more than what one would expect in NFT-arts)

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

NFT oligarchy? A study of 6.1M NFT trades finds a few folks at the center of the market
🐱 The top 10% of traders account for 85% of transactions & trade at least once 97% of all assets
🦍10% of buyer–seller pairs have the same volume as the remaining 90% https://t.co/V3vytqZZB5

[Andrea Baronchelli @a_baronca]

Want to research NFTs? New dataset:
+ 4.7M NFTs,
+ 6.1M transactions.
Dataset: https://t.co/qXh2zEfi87
Paper: https://t.co/trmfxs3jiQ
@matt55nado

[Matt @matt55nado]

@Pythron Data and scripts here: https://t.co/qicR7PWA4q

Glad you liked it !

[Matt @matt55nado]

Best yet to come..

[Andrea Baronchelli @a_baronca]

First paper on NFT market to be published very soon. With a surprise. Stay tuned!

w @matt55nado @FlavioDGiacinto @lau_retti @lajello @martino_design

[Andrea Baronchelli @a_baronca]

Looking for a *postdoc*? Join us @turinginst + @CityUniLondon to explore centralisation / decentralisation interplay in the Token Economy. Amazing data, collab. w @PayPal (& more!), opportunity to help shape research. 2 yrs. Contact me for info. 1/2
https://t.co/VmRe5Rv0t7