Crypto market manipulation distorts prices through tactics like wash trading, fake pumps, and coordinated whale moves, creating artificial conditions that often lead to significant losses. Whales can ...
Wash trading distorts NFT markets, inflating prices and misleading buyers. Criminals use NFTs for money laundering, hiding ...
A wash trade is an illegal practice traders may use to manipulate the market. Wash trading gives the appearance that a stock or security is more popular than it really is. Traders may also make a wash ...
Much like traditional financial markets, crypto markets are not “immune” to manipulation. This, according to an update from CertiK. CertiK explained in an extensive update that many of the same ...
It's no secret that wash trading – a form of market manipulation where the buyer and seller in a transaction are the same or collude together – continues to plague the non-fungible token (NFT) market.
To say the crypto market has taken a beating in 2022 would be the biggest understatement of the year. Unfortunately for crypto investors, this has translated into huge losses and a bruised confidence ...
Wash trading is an illegal scheme to inflate volumes and values, misleading markets. Wash trading can be hard to detect in crypto markets due to pseudonymous trading, fragmented infrastructure and ...
Wash trading accounts for 70% of trades on some crypto exchanges, a study found. The practice of firms trading with themselves to boost prices artificially may lure inexperienced investors. Three ...
People obsessed with cryptocurrency got some news from a recent headline in Forbes, which said "More Than Half Of All Bitcoin Trades Are Fake." Paddy Hirsch and Wailin Wong from NPR's podcast The ...
Creditors of bankrupt cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius Network have alleged that crypto market maker Wintermute assisted Celsius executives in manipulating the price of Celsius (CEL) through ...
Recently-launched NFT marketplace Blur has surpassed OpenSea, the largest NFT marketplace in the world, in terms of trading volume over the past month. However, an analysis of those trades has ...