1 Sep 2022 | Updated 13 Sep 2022 [research]

ACK-J completes MAGIC-funded research proposal

ACK-J1 has posted the final update (July-August 2022)2 for their MAGIC3-funded research proposal4:

This is the fifth and final update delivered for my MAGIC grant, detailing the work I have completed from July 1st to August 31st. [..] I want to thank the MAGIC committee for their support over the last six months, helping me complete my research!

Technical updates

The final report is available as a .PDF5 on Github. The code and datasets are available in the Monero-Dataset-Pipeline6 repository.

Consult the previous MO report7 to learn more about this story.


Update: add link to Justin Ehrenhofer’s Q&A with ACK-J about the paper8.


  1. https://github.com/ACK-J 

  2. https://github.com/MAGICGrants/Monero-Fund/issues/15#issuecomment-1233555259 

  3. https://magicgrants.org/Monero-Fund/ 

  4. https://github.com/MAGICGrants/Monero-Fund/issues/15 

  5. https://github.com/ACK-J/Monero-Dataset-Pipeline/blob/main/Lord_of_the_Rings__An_Empirical_Analysis_of_Monero_s_Ring_Signature_Resilience_to_Artificially_Intelligent_Attacks.pdf 

  6. https://github.com/ACK-J/Monero-Dataset-Pipeline 

  7. /magic-monero-fund-committee-funds-first-research-proposal/ 

  8. https://magicgrants.org/Monero-Tracing-Research/