Importance Farming / Sybil attacks¶
Description:
Farming Importance is using multiple Wallet that generate importance and delegating their importance to one main Wallet. This Wallet will then have a boosted importance and therefore may be able to attack the network. This is called a Sybil attack
In order to improve our consensus, we plan on creating an algorithm that identifies these farming Wallets and possibly bans them from the network.
Node Evidence¶
| Normal Wallets | Farming Wallets | Main Wallet |
|---|---|---|
| May have high or low money | Probably medium to low money (most money on main account) | May have short age but many delegating to them |
| Probably random trx | Probably very even amount of trx | May trx with only Farming Wallets |
| May delegate at any age | Probably delegate with low age | |
| May change delegate often | Probably never changes delegate | |
| May have trx with random people | Probably only exchanges with other Farming Wallets or Main Wallet | |
| May get money from random person | Probably gets initial money from Main Wallet |
Metadata Evidence¶
In addition, there is metadata we might use to get more evidence:
- How often is logged into the Wallet -> Farming Wallets may be left on their own for longer
- Are the transactions automatic or by hand -> Farming Wallets may have automatic transfers to boost importance
- Wallets all accessed from the same Browser -> Farming Wallets probably managed by the same person using the same Browser