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 ...

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 ...

Some people repeatedly sell themselves their own NFTs in an attempt to artificially inflate their prices, according to a report published Wednesday. Called “wash trading,” the practice has long been ...

Wash trading distorts NFT markets, inflating prices and misleading buyers. Criminals use NFTs for money laundering, hiding ...

The NFT marketplace is rife with people buying their own NFTs in order to drive up prices, according to a report released this week by blockchain data firm Chainalysis. Known as “wash trading”, the ...

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 ...

When learning about cryptocurrency, one term to keep in mind is wash trading. In this video clip from "The Crypto Show" on Motley Fool Live, recorded on Feb. 23, Fool.com contributors Jon Quast and ...

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 on unregulated cryptocurrency exchanges a widespread problem. In first quarter of 2020, wash trading constituted $4.5T in spot markets and $1.5T in derivatives markets. Geopolitical ...

When Bitwise Asset Management declared in a March 2019 presentation to the United States Securities and Exchange Commission that 95% of the Bitcoin (BTC) trading volume being reported globally on ...

LooksRare aims to be an alternative to OpenSea, but the amount of wash trading on the platform raises questions on whether users really view it as a viable competitor. LooksRare made its debut on ...

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 ...