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 ...

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 ...

Wash trading is likely the simplest of market manipulation schemes. However, it lays the fundamentals for many other schemes, and even its most basic form has proven incredibly effective in ...

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 ...

Have users on Polymarket really traded $22.6 billion? Don’t bet on it. New research shines a bright light on the staggering extent of wash trading on the blockchain-based prediction market Polymarket, ...

Crypto-native trade surveillance and risk monitoring firm Solidus Labs on Tuesday identified $2 billion worth of wash trades on Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH)-based decentralized exchanges (DEXs) since 2020.