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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.
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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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*.
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.
* 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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