{"ID":2846601,"CreatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","UpdatedAt":"2026-06-01T04:54:23.091178241Z","DeletedAt":null,"paper_url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01393","arxiv_id":"2511.01393","title":"ConneX: Automatically Resolving Transaction Opacity of Cross-Chain Bridges for Security Analysis","abstract":"As the Web3 ecosystem evolves toward a multi-chain architecture, cross-chain bridges have become critical infrastructure for enabling interoperability between diverse blockchain networks. However, while connecting isolated blockchains, the lack of cross-chain transaction pairing records introduces significant challenges for security analysis like cross-chain fund tracing, advanced vulnerability detection, and transaction graph-based analysis. To address this gap, we introduce ConneX, an automated and general-purpose system designed to accurately identify corresponding transaction pairs across both ends of cross-chain bridges. Our system leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to efficiently prune the semantic search space by identifying semantically plausible key information candidates within complex transaction records. Further, it deploys a novel examiner module that refines these candidates by validating them against transaction values, effectively addressing semantic ambiguities and identifying the correct semantics. Extensive evaluations on a dataset of about 500,000 transactions from five major bridge platforms demonstrate that ConneX achieves an average F1 score of 0.9746, surpassing baselines by at least 20.05\\%, with good efficiency that reduces the semantic search space by several orders of magnitude (1e10 to less than 100). Moreover, its successful application in tracing illicit funds (including a cross-chain transfer worth $1 million) in real-world hacking incidents underscores its practical utility for enhancing cross-chain security and transparency.","short_abstract":"As the Web3 ecosystem evolves toward a multi-chain architecture, cross-chain bridges have become critical infrastructure for enabling interoperability between diverse blockchain networks. However, while connecting isolated blockchains, the lack of cross-chain transaction pairing records introduces significant challenge...","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.01393","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.01393v1","authors":"[\"Hanzhong Liang\",\"Yue Duan\",\"Xing Su\",\"Xiao Li\",\"Yating Liu\",\"Yulong Tian\",\"Fengyuan Xu\",\"Sheng Zhong\"]","published":"2025-11-03T09:44:02Z","proceeding":"cs.CR","tasks":"[\"cs.CR\"]","methods":"[\"Large Language Model\",\"Language Model\"]","has_code":false}