Poster: Evolution of Ethereum: A Temporal Graph Perspective

Ethereum is one of the most popular blockchain systems that supports more than half a million transactions every day. Whereas it remains mysterious what the transaction pattern is and how it evolves over time. In this paper, we study the evolutionary behavior of Ethereum transactions from a temporal graph point of view. It shows that there is no evidence that changes in average triplet closure duration is related to prices. We observe the macroscopic and microscopic burstiness of Ethereum transactions. We analyze the Gini indexes of the transaction graphs and the user wealth in which Ethereum is found to be very unfair since the very beginning, in a sense, “the rich is already very rich”.