What's Going On With Gnosis?
There’s been some unusual activity with Gnosis as pointed out by our community. Time to figure out exactly what’s going on.
Method :
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Using
gnosis.core.fact_transactions
andgnosis.core.fact_event_logs
andcrosschain.core.address_labels
to find transaction count of address and contracts. -
some label and contracts name and information missed in flipside gathered from Gnosis Chain Explorer
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contracts and destinations wallet those that have less than 1000 transactions to their destination are ignored in this analysis
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Analyzed time period: Past month
Conclusions :
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The most unusual activity in the last month is related to this three wallets ("0x0d69240be6c360c40d4a238299627de103201ff1","0x5f8030e1d9c3972cb9f9925ff5090694f13abd4e","0x37efe9b31830653039edc3b212a6e1b882cd46b4")
have done nearly 70K transactions altogether.
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The second suspicious activity is related to transfers related to the "ETH Rinkeby -> xDai" bridge, which on October 4th made more than 72K transactions in one day, most of which were probably done by bots.
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Mithraeum game and Swash App there are two programs that are of interest to Gnosis users and have had an average number of daily transactions in the past month.
The charts show that the number of transactions increased significantly on October 4 and 5, the highest number of transactions on these 2 days are related to:
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Rinkeby-xDai AMB with 72K transactions
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The wallet address "0x37efe9b31830653039edc3b212a6e1b882cd46b4" is suspected to be a scam wallet.
there have been many transfer transactions to this wallet from many wallets with a certain amount of 0.009 XDAI in one day, which may have been aimed at increasing the number of transactions of this wallet or a scam.
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The point that is noticeable in the chart of the number of transactions is the number of transactions related to the Swash App platform, which seems to have been of interest to users in a month. this point is also clearly visible in the chart of interaction with contracts.
contracts related to Mithraeum game and its tokens have had a high number of transactions in the last month.
also, in the last few days, the number of POAP receiving transactions has increased significantly
The number of active users and the number of new users in Gnosis have been balanced in the past month, but on October 5th, more than 54.7K new wallets were activated at once. "0x37efe9b31830653039edc3b212a6e1b882cd46b4" has 54.1K transactions that can be associated with these new users.
The statistics show that 69.4% (54.13K) of new users interacted with the suspicious wallet, so it can be concluded that this spike in the number of new wallets on October 5th is related to the owner of this wallet.
New user transaction destination chart data shows that 3 spikes in the number of new users on September 27th, 28th and October 5th are associated with 3 suspicious wallets.
- "0x0d69240be6c360c40d4a238299627de103201ff1" Sep 27
- "0x5f8030e1d9c3972cb9f9925ff5090694f13abd4e" Sep 28
- "0x37efe9b31830653039edc3b212a6e1b882cd46b4" October 5
The data shows that these 3 wallets have not had any transactions between each other.
Active user transactions on Gnosis on a daily basis are mostly focused on Swash App and Mithraeum game and "Rinkeby-xDai" bridge, there is a significant spike on October 4th which shows active users over 72K transactions related to the bridge have "ETH Rinkeby -> xDai".
Examining the transactions of bots shows that they played a role in increasing the number of transactions on October 4, however, there is no widespread activity from them during the rest of the day.
Introduction :
In 2021, the xDAI and GnosisDAO communities voted to combine their ecosystems and create the Gnosis Chain, which is an Ethereum forerunner-companion that addresses scaling issues through solid engineering.
Gnosis Chain is the associated execution-layer EVM chain for stable transactions. It uses the xDai token and includes a wide-ranging group of projects and users. xDai was the first Ethereum sidechain solution that had a US dollar-pegged stable coin as a native token that was used for transactions and fees.
“Our goal for Gnosis Chain is to offer 100k gas at $0.01. How can we achieve that? A combination of technical innovation and tradeoffs in favor of low gas costs.” — Martin Koppelmann, Founder of Gnosis.
Gnosis Chain is focused on preserving privacy and therefore its overall approach can be summarized as trying to ensure transactions are fast, cheap, private and secure.
In addition to providing stable, low-cost, and optimized transactions, the Gnosis Beacon Chain (GBC) infrastructure will be available to support important Ethereum updates, including EIP implementations. Gnosis Chain will merge with the GBC exactly like Ethereum will merge with the Ethereum Beacon Chain.[source]


Definitions :
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Swash App :
Swash is an ecosystem of tools and services that enable people, businesses, and developers to unlock the latent value of data by pooling, securely sharing, and monetising its value. People are incentivised to share their data so that they can earn while retaining their privacy. Businesses can access high-quality, zero-party data in a sustainable and compliant way. Developers can simply set up and build systems within a collaborative development framework. Swash is reimagining data ownership, enabling all actors of the data economy to earn, access, build and collaborate in a liquid digital ecosystem for data.
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Rinkeby-xDai AMB :
The main use case of the Arbitrary Message Bridge (AMB) between the Rinkeby Testnet and the xDai chain is to relay tokens emitted by Reddit (e.g. Moons and Bricks) to a chain with real value (xDai) through the AMB extensions.
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Mithraeum :
Mithraeum is a pure on-chain grand strategy game strongly focused on players’ social interactions. To be successful in the game, the players use their economic and military resources (physical layer), alongside social and analytical skills converting them into political influence and thus spread their will upon others (social layer). In other words, it is a strategy game that, thanks to the blockchain as a game theoretic playground, turns into a real time political simulator.
Mithraeum is currently at the Bronze Age stage — a series of limited public tests where the Mithraeum community tests and validates hypotheses related to game design. It takes place on the Gnosis Chain
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Active User : A wallet that has 10 or more transactions per day.
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New User : A wallet that has do its first transaction in the last 30 days.
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Bots : A wallet that has10 or more transactions per minute.
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