Comment by wavemode
4 hours ago
"pump the price of a token" seems like the complex part that you're hand-waving. Either this token has a bunch of other traders (in which case, it's not trivial to simply "pump" its fair-market price by your own effort), or your alt wallets are themselves most of the liquidity (in which case, you're really just transacting with yourself, which is trivial to trace)
yes, there are always a bunch of traders on every launch so this is easy and has been streamlined for years with pump.fun + bundlers, and similar services on other networks
bots hop in everything, and the bundler is the creator who has lots of alts, market can bear this
in this case the bundler would be all processed tainted money, or the tainted money is another trader later
and your clean KYC'd money would be one of the traders that showed up
you bought at launch, and it pumped. hurray. reiterating that you have to sell into liquidity - we're talking about liquidity pools onchain here, no exchange companies - and then moving the proceeds to an exchange.
with the groups of addresses being unlinked this whole time, the only other thing to consider is connecting to an RPC server under different IP addresses, or connecting to your own node onprem. it doesn't matter if you assume, you have to prove for it to matter, and assuming incriminates everyone that actually picked the right token and had nothing to do with anything. there are plenty of people making 10,000%+ gains in random crypto tokens, amongst those taking losses, you're just another one.
yes, some people money launder successfully. you'll find out decades later while the attorney general exclusively parades around outdated and misapplied methods that failed