70% of unregulated exchange transactions are wash trading: NBER study
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The researchers found that in some exchanges, the wash trading volume can go as high as 80%. 1866 Total views 31 Total shares Listen to article 0:00 News Ho-ho-ho! Get Limited Holiday Trait!Collect this article as an NFT With exchanges becoming a focus as the FTX fiasco continues, a new research paper suggested that almost three out of four transactions in unregulated exchanges are fake.
A working paper titled Crypto Wash Trading was recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). Using statistical and behavioral patterns to determine which transactions were legitimate or not, the paper studied 29 unregulated exchanges and came to the conclusion that, on average, more than 70% of the volume within the platforms are wash trades.
The researchers found that some exchanges wash trading volume goes as high as 80% of the total trading volume. The researchers wrote that in twelve tier-2 exchanges, wash trades amounted to almost 80% of the total trade volume. The researchers wrote: These estimates translate into wash trading of over 4.5 trillion USD in spot markets and over 1.5 Trillion USD in derivatives markets in the first quarter of 2020 alone.
According to the researchers, there are short-term incentives for wash trading. The study suggested that fake transactions often impact the rankings of the exchanges on data and statistics websites like CoinMarketCap. In addition, fake transactions also affect the crypto prices within the exchanges over the short term.
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Meanwhile, the FTX debacle continues to gain attention as wallets linked to Alameda Research have shown movements, funneling around $1.7 million in assets through crypto mixers. The movements were observed days after the former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried was released on a $250 million bond.
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