Wash trading
Wash trading:
This is when investors create artificial trading activity to appear as if they are doing business, but in reality, it's fake, and there is no actual, legitimate buying or selling occurring; this occurs most often with exchanges themselves who buy and sell their own tokens between each other to make them look like actual trades, driving up value artificially which can lead people to think that an asset will continue increasing before plummeting once all these fake transactions have been uncovered.
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