yeah I would say that successful phishing campaigns and rugs stay within the ecosystem to make more. they can directly buy into new projects or launder and buy into new projects. the new projects can be specifically launched to sell out to laundered funds, it can even be the same people using different addresses and nodes.
and then on the legal side with arbitrage bots (MEV and more), they also like to play around in the ecosystem, chase passive income in protocols and DAOs like everyone else.
speaking of everyone else, there are plenty of people with clearly legal funds, this post is just not about them.
its a whole parallel economy, where transactions simply aren't whitelisted, just as the people spent the last decade building due to the friction involved with whitelisting transactions unnecessarily. its here, this is how it works.
illicit fund users can cash out as well, whenever they want their local fiat money.
were they the person that launched the project (that got bought out by the laundered money)? congratulations.
were they one of the early believers of the project (that they also launched, that also got bought out by the laundered money?) congratulations, they have high capital gains just like any other lucky trader that "did their own research".
and then on the legal side with arbitrage bots (MEV and more), they also like to play around in the ecosystem, chase passive income in protocols and DAOs like everyone else.
speaking of everyone else, there are plenty of people with clearly legal funds, this post is just not about them.
its a whole parallel economy, where transactions simply aren't whitelisted, just as the people spent the last decade building due to the friction involved with whitelisting transactions unnecessarily. its here, this is how it works.
illicit fund users can cash out as well, whenever they want their local fiat money.
were they the person that launched the project (that got bought out by the laundered money)? congratulations.
were they one of the early believers of the project (that they also launched, that also got bought out by the laundered money?) congratulations, they have high capital gains just like any other lucky trader that "did their own research".