Bernhard Haslhofer — Cryptoasset Analytics & Blockchain Forensics Researcher
I lead the Digital Currency Ecosystems research group at the Complexity Science Hub in Vienna. My work develops computational methods for cryptoasset analytics, blockchain forensics, and the socio-economic study of decentralized finance.
I co-founded Iknaio Cryptoasset Analytics and serve as a court-certified expert in IT and cryptoasset forensics. I also teach courses on these topics at TU Wien.
Research Interests
Recent News
May 2026
I am co-organizing this year's Frontiers in DeFi workshop at the Einstein Center Berlin.
Mar 2026
Research Impact: our investigation methods ultimately led to the crackdown of over 373,000 dark web sites.
Mar 2026
Our paper on Credibility Matters: Motivations, Characteristics, and Influence Mechanisms of Crypto Key Opinion Leaders has been accepted at ACM CHI 2026.
Mar 2026
We are hosting this year's edition of the Cryptoasset Analytics Workshop (CAAW), co-located with Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026.
Feb 2026
The idCLUES project on identifying complex laundering and underlying exchange schemes has started.
Feb 2026
We are going to host the upcoming Illicit Network Workshop at the Complexity Science Hub from June 29-30. Call for proposals is open until March 2 2026.
Jan 2026
New preprint: Reuse of Public Keys Across UTXO and Account-Based Cryptocurrencies, will be presented at Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2026.
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.