Token price manipulation is rampant on Ethereum-based decentralized exchanges, where so-called wash trading amounted to at least $2 billion worth of crytocurrencies since September 2020, according to a study by researcher Solidus Labs.
Wash trading, a form of market price manipulation where a trader buys and sells a security, can involve token issuers and other parties selling a coin to themselves to boost its price and trading volume — and to make it a viable candidate for being listed on centralized exchanges.
Solidus found that liquidity providers manipulated prices and volumes of more than 20,000 tokens since September 2020, according ...
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