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.

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SoftwareX
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2026-01-21
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2026.102523
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Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
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Dakar: A CoinJoin forensic software

Michael Herbert Ziegler, Mariusz Nowostawski, Basel Katt
SoftwareX
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
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Dakar: A CoinJoin forensic software

Michael Herbert Ziegler, Mariusz Nowostawski, Basel Katt
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Abstract

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.

SoftwareXVol. 33
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NO)
Openalex Percentile: Top 88%
Blockchain Technology Applications and Security
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