Dakar: A CoinJoin forensic software
The tension between blockchain transparency and user privacy has driven innovation in mixing protocols creating a need for comprehensive analytical frameworks that can rigorously evaluate privacy properties across different implementations. Dakar is an open-source framework that unifies ingestion and provides reproducible classification and analysis of CoinJoin transactions on UTXO blockchains. Its graph database captures the relationships between mixing transactions while a web interface enables experimentation with built-in privacy tools such as CoinJoin transaction heuristics and similarity measures. By enabling researchers to compare and quantify CoinJoin activity across multiple protocols Dakar facilitates studies on privacy-enhancing techniques and supports the discovery and analysis of differences in CoinJoin implementations.
Authors
- Michael Herbert Ziegler
- Mariusz Nowostawski
- Basel Katt
Institutions
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
Publication Details
- Journal
- SoftwareX
- Published
- 2026-01-21
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2026.102523
- Primary Topic
- Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00