Crypto-asset trading on top of Ethereum Blockchain comprehensive dataset

Blockchain technology, once limited to niche technological communities, has seen widespread global adoption in recent years, with the potential to reshape financial and social systems. Launched in July 2015, the Ethereum blockchain introduced programmable Smart Contracts. This innovation enabled the creation of user-defined crypto-assets adhering to the ERC-20 standard, supporting a wide range of decentralized applications beyond simple value transfer. We present a large-scale, temporally annotated dataset of ERC-20 token transactions recorded on the Ethereum blockchain. Spanning from November 2015 to December 2024, the dataset encapsulates the trading activity of 216,336,529 users trading 1,138,136 unique tokens, offering a detailed view of crypto-market activity over time. Uniquely, it enables the analysis of a financial ecosystem from its inception, providing rare insights into its structural evolution, participant dynamics, and emergent behaviors. As the largest publicly available resource of its kind, it supports research in blockchain analytics, market dynamics and temporal network analysis. The full dataset and accompanying code are released for public use.

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Scientific Data
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2025-08-12
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05662-w
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Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
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Crypto-asset trading on top of Ethereum Blockchain comprehensive dataset

Alex Pentland, Shahar Somin, Yaniv Altshuler
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Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
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Crypto-asset trading on top of Ethereum Blockchain comprehensive dataset

Alex Pentland, Shahar Somin, Yaniv Altshuler
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Abstract

Blockchain technology, once limited to niche technological communities, has seen widespread global adoption in recent years, with the potential to reshape financial and social systems. Launched in July 2015, the Ethereum blockchain introduced programmable Smart Contracts. This innovation enabled the creation of user-defined crypto-assets adhering to the ERC-20 standard, supporting a wide range of decentralized applications beyond simple value transfer. We present a large-scale, temporally annotated dataset of ERC-20 token transactions recorded on the Ethereum blockchain. Spanning from November 2015 to December 2024, the dataset encapsulates the trading activity of 216,336,529 users trading 1,138,136 unique tokens, offering a detailed view of crypto-market activity over time. Uniquely, it enables the analysis of a financial ecosystem from its inception, providing rare insights into its structural evolution, participant dynamics, and emergent behaviors. As the largest publicly available resource of its kind, it supports research in blockchain analytics, market dynamics and temporal network analysis. The full dataset and accompanying code are released for public use.

Scientific DataVol. 12(1)
Bar-Ilan University (IL), IIT@MIT (US)
Industry, innovation and infrastructure
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Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
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