Datasets:
license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
- tabular-classification
- tabular-regression
- time-series-forecasting
language:
- en
tags:
- synthetic
- finance
- fraud-detection
- aml
- anti-money-laundering
- anomaly-detection
- transaction-monitoring
- fintech
- banking
- crypto
- market-manipulation
- account-takeover
- false-positive-reduction
pretty_name: Aestrea Dark Pool Financial Anomaly Pack
size_categories:
- 10K<n<100K
configs:
- config_name: default
data_files:
- split: train
path: dark_pool_sample.parquet
Aestrea Dark Pool Financial Anomaly Pack (Sample)
A synthetic financial-anomaly and fraud-detection dataset for AML / transaction-monitoring model training, false-positive reduction research, and fintech anomaly-detection pipelines. Each row is a complete financial activity sequence — a dormant warm-up period followed by a sudden activity burst — labeled as account takeover, market-manipulation spoofing, or legitimate-but-high-risk (false positive) behavior, with telemetry, identity context, detection logic, and financial exposure.
Built by SolsticeAI as a free sample of a larger commercial pack. 100% synthetic. No real transactions, accounts, addresses, order books, or customer data.
What is included
| File | Rows | Format | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|
dark_pool_sample.parquet |
10,000 | Parquet | Columnar, typed, best for analytics |
dark_pool_sample.jsonl |
10,000 | JSON Lines | Streaming / LLM training friendly |
This sample: 10,000 financial activity sequences, stratified 3,333 per fraud class.
Fraud classes (3): Account_Takeover_Sequence, Market_Manipulation_Spoofing, Legitimate_High_Risk_Activity (false positive)
Label distribution: ~6,666 fraudulent / ~3,334 benign (by design — one of three scenarios is a benign high-risk lookalike)
Severity tiers: low, medium, high, critical — scenario-weighted so spoofing skews mid, ATO skews high, false-positives skew low
Assets covered: BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT, SOL, USD, EUR, GBP, JPY
Geographic coverage: 20 country codes across high-risk and low-risk jurisdictions
Record structure
Each record is one financial activity sequence with 7 top-level fields:
| Field | Type | Contents |
|---|---|---|
schema_version |
string | Pack schema version (1.0.0-dark-pool-sample) |
event |
struct | id, trace_id, timestamp, severity, label, label_confidence |
identity_context |
struct | account_id, baseline_risk_score, session_entropy, account_age_days, kyc_tier |
telemetry_stream |
list | Ordered financial events: timestamp, event_name (e.g., LARGE_WITHDRAWAL, LIMIT_ORDER_CANCELLED, LOGIN_NEW_COUNTRY), asset, transaction_amount_usd, geo_country, latency_ms, burst_indicator |
vulnerability |
struct | fraud_class, scenario_description, exposure_vector |
detection |
struct | anomaly_type, baseline_deviation, detection_logic (SQL-like), anomaly_score, confidence_band |
impact |
struct | financial_exposure_usd, customer_funds_at_risk_usd, recoverable_pct |
simulation |
struct | synthetic, engine, chaos_profile, ground_truth_classification |
See SCHEMA.md for the full nested field breakdown.
Why this dataset is useful
Most public financial-fraud datasets are either flat tabular snapshots (IEEE-CIS, credit-card fraud) or narrow single-event labels. Real AML / transaction-monitoring models need something these don't provide: sequences (warm-up → burst), ambiguous labels (legitimate-but-high-risk that looks like fraud), and detection logic grounded in behavioral patterns rather than just feature engineering.
- Full pre-event dormant and check-in telemetry — not just the burst
burst_indicatorflags at each step so models can learn temporal dynamics explicitly- A dedicated false-positive class (
Legitimate_High_Risk_Activity) with benign ground truth but fraud-adjacent behavior — the exact class that drives real-world FP rates - Per-record
detection_logicin SQL-like form shows how the scenario would be detected in production - Per-record
anomaly_scoreandlabel_confidenceso models can train on calibration targets, not just hard labels - Cross-asset (crypto + fiat), cross-geography coverage
Typical use cases
- Fraud-detection model training
- AML / transaction-monitoring pipelines
- False-positive-reduction research (reducing customer-experience pain)
- Risk-scoring systems
- Account-takeover detection
- Spoofing / market-manipulation classifiers
- Temporal-burst anomaly detection
- LLM fine-tuning on fraud-investigation narratives
- Benchmarking anomaly scoring against ambiguous ground truth
Quick start
import pandas as pd
import pyarrow.parquet as pq
df = pq.read_table("dark_pool_sample.parquet").to_pandas()
# Label distribution (mix of fraudulent and benign)
print(df["event"].apply(lambda e: e["label"]).value_counts())
# Average financial exposure by fraud class
df["cls"] = df["vulnerability"].apply(lambda v: v["fraud_class"])
df["exposure"] = df["impact"].apply(lambda i: i["financial_exposure_usd"])
print(df.groupby("cls")["exposure"].mean().round(0))
# Burst density by scenario (bursts per sequence)
df["burst_count"] = df["telemetry_stream"].apply(
lambda s: sum(1 for step in s if step["burst_indicator"])
)
print(df.groupby("cls")["burst_count"].mean().round(2))
# False-positive rate signal — proportion of fraudulent-label vs benign per severity
df["severity"] = df["event"].apply(lambda e: e["severity"])
df["label"] = df["event"].apply(lambda e: e["label"])
print(pd.crosstab(df["severity"], df["label"], normalize="index").round(3))
Streaming form:
import json
with open("dark_pool_sample.jsonl") as f:
for line in f:
sequence = json.loads(line)
# one financial activity sequence per line
Responsible use
This dataset is intended for defensive / monitoring use cases: fraud-detection model training, AML research, false-positive reduction, and academic benchmarks. It contains synthesized transaction amounts, synthetic account IDs, and fictional scenario narratives — it does not contain real customer data, real transactions, real wallet addresses, or any PII. Models trained on this data will learn fraud-pattern shape and temporal dynamics; downstream deployment for live transaction monitoring requires calibration against institution-specific real-world data under appropriate compliance review.
License
Released under CC BY 4.0. Use freely for research, fraud-tool prototyping, education, and commercial development with attribution.
Get the full pack
This Hugging Face repo is a 10K-sequence sample. The production pack scales to 5M+ sequences with expanded scenario coverage (layering, smurfing, wash trading, sanctions-evasion routing, trade-based ML, bust-out fraud), additional asset classes (equities, FX, derivatives, NFTs), multi-entity transaction graphs, richer ambiguous-label distribution tuning, parquet + JSONL + SAR-narrative-aligned delivery, and buyer-specific variants.
Self-serve (Stripe checkout):
- Sample Scale tier — $5,000 — ~25K records, one subject, 72-hour delivery.
Full pack + enterprise scope:
- www.solsticestudio.ai/datasets — per-SKU pricing across Starter / Professional / Enterprise tiers, plus commercial licensing, custom generation, and buyer-specific variants.
Procurement catalog:
- SolsticeAI Data Storefront — available via Datarade / Monda.
Citation
@dataset{solstice_dark_pool_pack_2026,
title = {Aestrea Dark Pool Financial Anomaly Pack (Sample)},
author = {SolsticeAI},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Hugging Face},
url = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/solsticestudioai/dark-pool-pack}
}