Aurora- DeFi Surveillance to Detect Market Manipulation

I started with a question during my research:

If DeFi is “transparent,” why is meaningful market surveillance still so difficult?

That question led me into researching market manipulation in decentralised finance, which I later published on SSRN.

But I didn’t want the work to stay theoretical.

So I began building AURORA — a live prototype that turns that research into practical tooling for DeFi market surveillance.

The idea behind AURORA is to explore whether institutional-style surveillance principles can be adapted to decentralised markets and used to surface suspicious on-chain behaviour in a usable way.

Right now it’s still early-stage and very much in development, but the prototype is live and I’m using it to validate both the technical assumptions and whether the problem is commercially meaningful.

After publishing my research on DeFi market manipulation, I’ve now launched the first live prototype of AURORA — a market surveillance engine designed to detect manipulative behaviour across decentralised finance ecosystems.

What began as academic research is now evolving into applied infrastructure.

AURORA is being built to bridge the gap between:

• fragmented on-chain transparency

• institutional surveillance standards

• the growing need for risk monitoring in digital asset markets

This prototype represents the first step toward translating research into practical surveillance tooling for the next generation of financial infrastructure.

Live Prototype: https://research-builder--alimulghani5.replit.app

Research Paper (SSRN): https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6319998

Currently seeking feedback from:

• DeFi founders

• Quant / trading professionals

• Compliance / regulatory specialists

• Investors interested in market infrastructure

Turning vision into reality.