None of the stablecoins analyzed met the Variance Threshold (VT) that the difference in stablecoin/fiat value must not exceed 10bp of the value of the underlying fiat more than three times over a one-year period.

The key metric in the DeFi ecosystem, TVL, can be faked by multiple transactions. A crypto whale can move its funds and single-handedly drive up TVL.

Distinct surges in time-of-trade graphs indicate potential scheduled trading bots activity to obfuscate privacy coin laundering. Wash trading can also be a good explanation for such trading patterns.

Allowing Tether to thrive for years led to new resilience mechanisms. Today, Tether is already in use on five independent blockchains, often dominating their on-chain transactions, and, in some cases, causing network congestion. Current blockchain forensics and market surveillance tools are unable to provide acceptable levels of KYC/AML efficiency.

SENSO token demonstrates suspiciously high and stable trade volume on Bittrex, KuCoin, and Poloniex. Observed trading patterns are consistent with wash trading.

Recent order size distribution on Gate.io deviates from other markets and contradicts Benford's law.

Suspicious trading volume spikes with low volatility hint at potential wash trading activity on FTX exchange.

Huobi and OKEx are often at the top of trading volume charts. The actual executed trade numbers show, however, suspiciously close trading patterns that might indicate the dominance of a few bots that follow a preset schedule.

Manipulations and Anomalies on Cryptocurrency Markets

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Manipulations and Anomalies on Cryptocurrency Markets

Asset prices in the DeFi space have plummeted since their recent highs

PayPal PYPL +0.3% officially announced its plans to allow its ~350 million users to buy and sell Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, and Litecoin. This announcement has catalyzed discussion about the adoption and institutionalization of digital assets.

Inca Digital’s investigation team correlated FinCEN's SARs transactions with blockchain and crypto market venue activity around the filing dates.

Cryptocurrency exchanges have been called altcoin casinos from day 1. They trade and promote thousands of tokens that have been dreamed up by former front end developers turned ERC20 evangelists.

DeFi rebase bug which allowed someone to drain $250k from a Uniswap pool with only $200

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A massive hack affected Twitter around 3pm EDT Wednesday (July 15th 2020), in which many high-profile accounts were used to tweet out a large-scale doubling scam.

By following additional surrounding anomalies from HitBTC on NTerminal, we noticed strange connections to otherwise seemingly distinct organizations.

Bitcoin recently experienced its third block reward halving

Justin Sun Coordinating with Exchanges to Revert Soft Fork 22.2

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Predictive Model Trading using NTerminal

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