5 Ways the Crypto Market is Manipulated

Adekunle Joshua

Pump and Dump Schemes: These schemes artificially inflate token value through marketing or whale activity to lure buyers, then sell the overvalued asset at a profit, ultimately crashing its price by removing liquidity.

Rug Pull Scams: In a rug pull, the team behind a cryptocurrency project dumps tokens on the market and closes the business.

Wash Trading: This involves insider trading of an asset within a project until the price rises.

Stop Hunting: Stop Hunting is a method where a whale sells large amounts of a token to trigger stop orders, driving the price down.

Whale Wall Spoofing: In this method, a whale places large fake orders to manipulate market sentiment.