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Market Manipulation: Suspected Wash Trading on Select Blockchains May Account for Up To $2.57 Billion in Trading Volume
[FEBRUARY 13, 2025 UPDATE]: Some numbers in this analysis have been adjusted to correct for an error. In last year’s…
54% of ERC-20 Tokens Listed on DEXes in 2023 Display Patterns That May Be Suggestive of Pump and Dump Schemes, but Represent just 1.3% of DEX Trading Volume
For most of the research that we publish in our annual Crypto Crime Report, the data tells a clear story.…
24% of New Tokens Launched in 2022 Bear On-Chain Characteristics of Pump and Dump Schemes
Pump and dump schemes in traditional finance are quite simple: Holders of a tradable asset, such as stock in a…