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德菲英引力?比特币、以太币和稳定币跨境流动的实证分析

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德菲英引力?比特币、以太币和稳定币跨境流动的实证分析

Tether, BISWorking Papers are written by members of the Monetary and EconomicDepartment of the Bank for International Settlements, and from time to time by othereconomists, and are published by the Bank. The papers are on subjects of topicalinterest and are technical in character. The views expressed in them are those of theirauthors and not necessarily the views of the BIS.This publication is available on the BIS website (www.bis.org).©Bank for International Settlements 2025. All rights reserved. Brief excerpts may bereproduced or translated provided the source is stated.ISSN 1020-0959 (print)ISSN 1682-7678 (online) DeFiying Gravity? An Empirical Analysis ofCross-Border Bitcoin, Ether and Stablecoin Flows∗Raphael Auer†, Ulf Lewrick‡, Jan Paulick§May 2025AbstractWe investigate trends and drivers of cross-border flows of the two major native cryp-toassets (Bitcoin and Ether) and the two major asset-backed stablecoins (Tetherand USD Coin) between 184 countries from 2017 to 2024. These flows are substan-tial, peaking at around USD 2.6 trillion in 2021, with stablecoins accounting forclose to half the volume. The unique bilateral data allow us to estimate the driversof these flows in a gravity framework, and how they differ across different typesof crypto assets.Our findings highlight speculative motives and global fundingconditions as key drivers of native crypto asset flows. Transactional motives playa significant role in cross-border flows for stablecoins and low-value Bitcoin trans-actions, where we further find a strong association with higher costs of traditionalremittances.Geographic barriers play a diminished role compared to traditionalfinancial flows, and capital flow management measures appear ineffective.JEL Codes:F24, F32, F38, G15, G23Keywords:Cryptocurrency; payments; cross-border flows; blockchain; decentralised finance;capital flow management; Bitcoin; Ether; USD Coin; Tether; stablecoins; remittances.For helpful comments, we thank Matteo Aquilina, Martin Diehl, Jon Frost, Ronald Heijmans,William Zhang and seminar participants at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), UC SantaBarbara, and at the Bank of Canada and Deutsche Bundesbank international conference on paymentsand securities settlement. We thank Sally Dubach, Maximilian Schrader and Violeta Vuletic for expertassistance with the data. Disclaimer: The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and notnecessarily those of the BIS or of the Deutsche Bundesbank.The use of any maps in this paper doesnot constitute, and should not be construed as constituting, an expression of a position by the BIS orthe Deutsche Bundesbank regarding the legal status of, or sovereignty of any territory or its authorities,to the delimitation of international frontiers and boundaries and/or to the name and designation of anyterritory, city or area.BIS and CEPR. raphael.auer@bis.orgBIS and University of Basel. ulf.lewrick@bis.org (corresponding author)BIS and Deutsche Bundesbank. jan.paulick@bis.org1 ∗†‡§ 1IntroductionGauging cryptoasset flows across borders remains a huge gap in international finance.The crypto and decentralised finance (DeFi) ecosystem has grown rapidly, spurred byspeculation and rising acceptance of cryptoassets in mainstream finance.Cryptoassetsare increasingly being integrated into exchange-traded funds, futures and other conven-tional financial instruments. However, despite total market capitalisation exceeding thatof large national stock markets, the macroeconomic implications of cryptoassets – in-cluding their underlying use cases and risks during market turmoil – remain poorly un-derstood.A key challenge is that cryptoassets operate on decentralised infrastructuretranscending national boundaries, unlike conventional financial networks governed by in-termediary institutions and established regulations. In this context, new types of oftenelusive intermediaries have emerged in crypto markets.In this paper, we shed light on a key type of crypto flows: cross-border transactions.We investigate the trends and drivers of these flows using novel bilateral cross-countrydata covering both native cryptoassets and asset-backed stablecoins across up to 184countries from Q1 2017 to Q2 2024.The data allow us to document the geography ofcrypto flows and to uncover the underlying drivers of crypto transactions across distinctcryptoassets.Specifically, the dataset encompasses Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum’s nativeasset Ether (ETH) and the two largest stablecoins by market capitalisation:Tether(USDT) and USD Coin (USDC). Including these heterogeneous cryptoassets makes itpossible to capture distinct use cases.We begin by documenting the magnitude, time variation and geography of globalcrypto flows. Across the four cryptoassets, international flows reached a peak of US$2.6trillion in 2021, roughly equivalent to 12% of global trade in goods at the time. Of thisamount, US$1.2 trillion was accounted for by stablecoins. Although transaction vol