Cartel
An economic cartel use a non-public agreement to restrict the supply or fix the price of an asset. A cartel is a formal type of market-manipulation. Cartels are considered to be against the public interest because of the potential asymmetric-information to reduce trust in markets.
Crypto exchanges operators act as economic cartel which can distort price formation. See stablecoin.
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