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# Crypto Mixer
A crypto mixer is a [smart contracts](smart-contracts.md) service that performs [money laundering](money-laundering.md) for a fee. The service obscures the origin of [illicit funds](illicit-financing.md) to evade detection by law enforcement.
A crypto mixer is a [smart contract](smart-contracts.md) service that performs [money laundering](money-laundering.md) for a fee. The service obscures the origin of [illicit funds](illicit-financing.md) to evade detection by law enforcement.
Crypto mixers are a form of [regulatory arbitrage](regulatory-arbitrage.md).

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# Money Laundering
The obfuscation of the origin of funds by layering illegitimate transactions (often tied to criminal activities) with legitimate transactions.
The obfuscation of the origin of funds by layering illegitimate transactions (often tied to criminal activities) with legitimate transactions.
See [mixer](mixer.md) and [AML](aml.md).
## References
* Orcutt, Mike. 2020. This Is How North Korea Uses Cutting-Edge Crypto Money Laundering to Steal Millions. MIT Technology Review. MIT Technology Review. http://www.technologyreview.com/2020/03/05/916688/north-korean-hackers-cryptocurrency-money-laundering/.
* Buttigieg, Christopher P., Christos Efthymiopoulos, Abigail Attard, and Samantha Cuyle. 2019. Anti-Money Laundering Regulation of Crypto Assets in Europes Smallest Member State. Law and Financial Markets Review 13 (4): 21127. https://doi.org/10.1080/17521440.2019.1663996.
* Fanusie, Yaya, and Tom Robinson. 2018. Bitcoin Laundering: An Analysis of Illicit Flows into Digital Currency Services. Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance Memorandum, January.
* Feinstein, Brian D., and Kevin Werbach. 2020. The Impact of Cryptocurrency Regulation on Trading Markets. SSRN Electronic Journal 7 (1): 4899. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3649475.
* Ferreira, Agata. 2021. The Curious Case of Stablecoins—Balancing Risks and Rewards? Journal of International Economic Law 24 (4): 75578. https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgab036.
* Fletcher, Emily, Charles Larkin, and Shaen Corbet. 2021. Countering Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing: A Case for Bitcoin Regulation. Research in International Business and Finance 56 (January): 101387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2021.101387.
* Miscione, Gianluca, and Donncha Kavanagh. 2015. Bitcoin and the Blockchain: A Coup dEtat in Digital Heterotopia? SSRN Electronic Journal, no. 2006: 127. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2624922.
* Rae, Shaela W, and Lorraine Mastersmith. 2019. Crypto Asset Trading in Canada: Entering a New Era of Regulation. Banking & Finance Law Review 35 (1): 15385.
* Renwick, Robin, and Rob Gleasure. 2021. Those Who Control the Code Control the Rules: How Different Perspectives of Privacy Are Being Written into the Code of Blockchain Systems. Journal of Information Technology 36 (1): 1638. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268396220944406.

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# Stablecoin
A crypto asset that is pegged ([currLency-peg](currLency-peg.md)) to a real world [currency](currency.md) such as the dollar or euro. Stablecoins may be issued on multiple [blockchain](blockchain.md).
Stablecoins may be [leverage](leverage.md) against their deposits where the total value in circulation does not equal the assets held on behalf of customers. Such stablecoins are known as *unbacked stablecoins*.
Stablecoins may be [leverage](leverage.md) against their deposits where the total value in circulation does not equal the assets held on behalf of customers. Such stablecoins are known as *unbacked stablecoins*.
See also [DeFi](defi.md), [staking](staking.md) and [liquidity pool](liquidity-pool.md).
## References
* Steele, Graham. 2021. The Miner of Last Resort: Digital Currency, Shadow Money and the Role of the Central Bank. Technology and Government, Emerald Studies in Media and Communications, Forthcoming.
* Gorton, Gary B., and Jeffery Zhang. 2021. Taming Wildcat Stablecoins. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3888752.
* Bennet, Tomlin. n.d. Tether and Bitfinex Introduction. Accessed 2 March 2022. https://bennettftomlin.com/2021/08/08/tether-and-bitfinex-introduction/.
* Krugman, Paul. 2018. Transaction Costs and Tethers: Why Im a Crypto Skeptic. The New York Times 21.
* Castor, Amy. 2021. The Curious Case of Tether: A Complete Timeline of Events. https://amycastor.com/2019/01/17/the-curious-case-of-tether-a-complete-timeline-of-events/.
* Griffin, John M, and Amin Shams. 2020. Is Bitcoin Really Untethered? The Journal of Finance 75 (4): 191364.
* Brennecke, Martin, Benjamin Schellinger, Nils Urbach, and Tobias Guggenberger. 2022. The De-Central Bank in Decentralized Finance: A Case Study of MakerDAO. https://doi.org/10.24251/HICSS.2022.737.
* Clements, Ryan. 2021. Built to Fail: The Inherent Fragility of Algorithmic Stablecoins. SSRN Electronic Journal 11: 131. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3952045.
* Ferreira, Agata. 2021. The Curious Case of Stablecoins—Balancing Risks and Rewards? Journal of International Economic Law 24 (4): 75578. https://doi.org/10.1093/jiel/jgab036.
* Landwehr, Marvin, and Volker Wulf. 2020. Toward Emancipatory Currencies: A Critique of Facebooks Libra Cryptocurrency and Ideas for Alternatives. PervasiveHealth: Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, 23646. https://doi.org/10.1145/3401335.3401365.
* Li, Ye, and Simon Mayer. 2021. Money Creation in Decentralized Finance: A Dynamic Model of Stablecoin and Crypto Shadow Banking. Fisher College of Business Working Paper, no. 202003: 030.
* Malloy, Matthew, and David Lowe. 2021. Global Stablecoins: Monetary Policy Implementation Considerations from the U.S. Perspective. Finance and Economics Discussion Series 2021 (020): 114. https://doi.org/10.17016/feds.2021.020.
* Mizrach, Bruce. 2021. Stablecoins: Survivorship, Transactions Costs and Exchange Microstructure. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3835219.
* Pupolizio, Ivan. 2021. From Libra to Diem. The Pursuit of a Global Private Currency. Global Jurist. https://doi.org/10.1515/gj-2021-0055.
* Reiser, Jan. 2020. Libra: An Economic and Technical Analysis. https://wwz.unibas.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/wwz/00_Professuren/Schaer_DLTFintech/Lehre/Reiser_2020.pdf.
* Salmony, Michael. 2019. Money and the Fear of Missing out: How to Stay Sane in a World Shaken by Libra. Journal of Payments Strategy & Systems 13 (4): 28287. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/hsp/jpss/2020/00000013/00000004/art00002.
* Tischer, Daniel. 2020. Cutting the Network? Facebooks Libra Currency as a Problem of Organisation. Finance and Society 6 (1): 1933. https://doi.org/10.2218/finsoc.v6i1.4406.
* Vasudevan, Ramaa. 2020. Libra and Facebooks Money Illusion. Challenge 63 (1): 2139. https://doi.org/10.1080/05775132.2019.1684662.
* Zetzsche, Dirk A., Ross P. Buckley, and Douglas W. Arner. 2021. Regulating Libra. Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 41 (1): 80113. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqaa036.
* Peebles, Gustav. 2020. Banking on Digital Money: Swedish Cashlessness and the Fraying Currency Tether. Cultural Anthropology 36 (1): 124. https://doi.org/10.14506/ca36.1.01.

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# Wash Trading
The trading of an [assets](assets.md) in which the same party both buys and sells the product in order to fake transaction or [market manipulate](market-manipulation.md) the price of the asset.
See [market manipulation](market-manipulation.md) and [price formation](price-formation.md).
## References
* Cong, Lin William, Xi Li, Ke Tang, and Yang Yang. 2020. Crypto Wash Trading. Available at SSRN 3530220.
* Vigna, P. 2019. Most Bitcoin Trading Faked by Unregulated Exchanges, Study Finds. Wall Street Journal.
* Vigna, P. 2019. Most Bitcoin Trading Faked by Unregulated Exchanges, Study Finds. Wall Street Journal.
* Feinstein, Brian D., and Kevin Werbach. 2020. The Impact of Cryptocurrency Regulation on Trading Markets. SSRN Electronic Journal 7 (1): 4899. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3649475.
* Rae, Shaela W, and Lorraine Mastersmith. 2019. Crypto Asset Trading in Canada: Entering a New Era of Regulation. Banking & Finance Law Review 35 (1): 15385.

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