Portrait of Bernhard Haslhofer, research group leader at Complexity Science Hub Vienna.

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I lead the Digital Currency Ecosystems research group at the Complexity Science Hub. My work focuses on developing computational methods to analyze cryptoasset ecosystems, combat cybercrime, and understand the socio-economic implications of decentralized finance. I co-founded Iknaio Cryptoasset Analytics and am a court-certified expert specializing in IT and cryptoasset forensics.

Research Interests

Digital Assets & DeFi: Developing computational methods to analyze technical and socio-economic aspects of cryptoasset and decentralized finance ecosystems.
Digital Crime & Forensics: Creating computational methods to understand and combat emerging cybercrime phenomena.
Disinformation: Analyzing structure and dynamics of large-scale disinformation campaigns.

Recent News

Jan 2026

Our paper on Linking Cryptoasset Attribution Tags to Knowledge Graph Entities: An LLM-based Approach just got published.

Nov 2025

We are hosting a workshop on Digital Crypto-Estates at the Complexity Science Hub.

Nov 2025

New pre-print entitled Slaying the Dragon: The Quest for Democracy in Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) is now available on arXiv.

Oct 2025

I organized a breakout session on "Creating harmonised standards for blockchain intelligence" as part of the 9th Global Conference on Criminal Finances and Cryptoassets.

Oct 2025

Our new pre-print on the Economic Impact of DeFi Crime Events on Decentralized Autonomous Organizations is out.

Oct 2025

Our latest GraphSense release, hosted by Iknaio, now supports tracing cryptoassets through DEXs, over bridges, and within cross-chain address clusters.

Sep 2025

We are co-hosting this year's INTERPOL New Technologies Forum (NTF) at the Complexity Science Hub.

Sep 2025

I am co-organizing this year's Frontiers in DeFi workshop at HTW Berlin.

Aug 2025

I am co-organizing the seminar Tackling Cybercrime in a Globalised World at the European Forum Alpbach.