🕳️ Released Phantom Node 77: The Financial Node — Crypto, Shadow Banking & Hawala
- Foundation date
20 October 2025
This project is a philosophical and artistic study of the phenomenon of "phantom nodes" — invisible yet influential objects and subjects in the contemporary global system. The descriptions contained within this study are metaphorical and allegorical, aimed at uncovering systemic problems, regimes, and civilisational influences. They are not a journalistic investigation or legal accusations, but serve as an artistic interpretation of reality.
Names are included because they appear in open international sources.
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Mode: Decentralized Liquidity
🕳️ Released Phantom Node 77: The Financial Node — Crypto, Shadow Banking & Hawala
Absolute anonymity and speed for military procurement transfers
Who is this?
A hybrid shadow financial ecosystem that converts oil/gas revenues into deployable military capital: sanctioned banks (e.g., Bank Sepah), hawala ledgers, shadow-banking networks and crypto hubs working in concert to provide anonymous, rapid transfers for procurement.
Type of node:
Financial-shadow infrastructure (hybrid of legacy and digital).
Status:
Operates outside transparent systems; partially shielded by official structures.
Form of control:
State front banks, hawala trust ledgers, crypto mixers/exchanges, trade misinvoicing, and shell companies.
Phantom image:
On a cluttered table two hands exchange bundles of worn cash; an old ledger lies nearby; a screen above shows streaming code and crypto symbols.
What remains after the phantom:
No single owner — only dispersed cash flows, ledgers and obfuscated digital traces.
Core of the node:
What sustained it?
Access to hydrocarbon revenues, state control of financial conduits, trusted intermediary networks (hawala/procurement agents) and expertise in laundering via trade and crypto.
How did it become a phantom?
By blending official and informal channels until control points dissolved into a network.
Why does the phantom still exist?
Because it adapts: when old channels are squeezed, crypto and new front structures replace them, preserving liquidity.
Phantom’s condition:
Decentralized, adaptive, anonymized.
After the regime:
— Trace and disrupt transaction chains;
— sanction and close front banks and exchanges;
— enhance international cooperation to restore transparent payment rails.
Collective reaction:
Funds that fuel violence must be severed. The world must enforce financial transparency and coordinated sanctions.
Core principle:
When a state weaponizes shadow liquidity, finance itself becomes a strategic threat.
Alt-text:
Graphite sketch: hands exchange bundles of cash on a dark table; a worn ledger (hawala system) lies beside them; in the background a screen shows crypto symbols and code. The scene blends cash and digital shadow finance.
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Unmasking the Phantom. Pivtorak.Studio. 20.10.2025
🛡️ This project is an artistic and philosophical exploration. All depictions are allegorical; the piece does not allege facts about specific private individuals without corroborated evidence.
Names are included because they appear in open international sources.
🫧 Phantom Node Dossier 77: The Financial Node: Crypto, Shadow Banking, and Hawala. The "Decentralized Liquidity" Regime.
Key Aspects of the Phantom:
"The Decentralized Liquidity Regime." The essence of this node is the systematic circumvention of the international financial system (SWIFT) by creating a multi-layered structure for converting energy revenues into usable currency. The node combines state facade banks (Bank Sepah), traditional shadow networks (Hawala), and new digital assets (Crypto Hubs) to ensure absolute anonymity and speed for military procurement transfers.
Regimes (which it directly shapes/supports):
🔀 Regime of "Hybrid Monetary Evasion": The fusion of old (Hawala) and new (Crypto) shadow infrastructure to create an invulnerable capital supply chain, where no transaction leaves a clear trace in formal financial systems.
🌊 Regime of "Sanctioned Resource Liquidity": Systematic use of crypto exchanges and mixers to launder billions earned from the sale of oil by the "shadow fleet", converting them into clean currency available for military needs.
🏦 Regime of "State Legalization": Using sanctioned banks (like Bank Sepah) as an official gateway, where large state operations (e.g., fund transfers from oil companies) are masked before being "broken up" and moved into the shadow network.
👤 Regime of "Anonymous Sponsorship": Providing anonymous funding for proxy forces and international procurement agents via the Hawala system, allowing the regime full plausible deniability.
Tools (which it actively uses/oversees):
🪙 Crypto Mixers and Exchanges: Decentralized services used to obfuscate the trail of large crypto payments obtained from oil sales, making the tracing of fund origins impossible.
📝 Hawala Ledgers: Traditional, trust-based, informal money transfer networks that allow the instantaneous movement of value (not physical cash) between Iran, Dubai, Turkey, and Asia.
🔗 Front Banks: Shell financial institutions, often in third countries, used for the final "whitewashing" stage of shadow capital before its use in legitimate procurement.
⚖️ Trade Misinvoicing: Using false or inflated/deflated invoices in trade (via controlled companies) to legalize shadow funds and return them to the formal economy.
Civilizational Influences (which it embodies/exploits):
📉 Erosion of Financial Control: Demonstrating how state-level criminality can systematically and effectively undermine global sanctions and anti-money laundering mechanisms.
🤝 Funding Aggression: This node is the lifeblood for weapons programs and regional destabilization, having a direct impact on global security.
🌐 Decentralization of Crime: Illustrating the shift from traditional crime to tech-savvy, decentralized state criminality that utilizes the anonymity of modern technologies.
⚠️ Threat to Crypto Regulation: Creating a precedent where state actors use cryptocurrencies to circumvent sanctions, leading to increased global regulation and the technology's discrediting.
Dissection of a Phantom Node. Pivtorak.Studio. 20.10.2025
🛡️ This project is an artistic and philosophical exploration. Depictions are allegorical and do not allege facts about private individuals without corroborated evidence.
Names are included because they appear in open international sources.
