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Wash Trading.

Trading designed to create the appearance of activity without meaningful change in economic ownership.

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What does Wash Trading mean?

Wash trading involves coordinated or self-directed buys and sells that inflate volume or activity metrics, potentially misleading people about real market interest.

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How people use it

Used around token launches, on-chain trading, wallet analysis and crypto social feeds.

EXAMPLE“The volume is huge, but the wallet pattern looks like wash trading.”
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wash volume

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