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On-chain revelations claim that market makers use same-name platforms to wash out weak hands

On-chain traders have claimed that primary market makers can reopen same-name platforms at extremely low costs to wash out small buyers who have acquired early tokens. They state that even if retail investors buy only $100, the cost for market makers to reopen a platform is often only tens to hundreds of dollars in network fees, which is cheaper than lifting the price with opposing orders.

This revelation presents the story of "early addresses investing $100 and making millions" as a promotional template to attract later investors, rather than a verifiable common profit path. English research has similarly documented self-buying and selling to inflate volume, synchronized funding across multiple wallets, and using false transactions to pave the way for subsequent listings and narratives.

In the secondary market, the revelation claims that market makers will use time, hacking, large early unlocks, and significant issuance to drive away hidden orders, then raise prices when the tokens are sparse. In public cases, unlocks and large transfers to exchanges are often treated as sell pressure signals; however, similar transfers can also be for wash trading, splitting positions, or inducing opposing orders, and a single on-chain transfer cannot be used as a basis for opening positions.

The revelation also states that clear addresses, large withdrawals in single or a few transactions, and concentrated token inflows to exchanges, paired with "sell-off signals" narratives, are ways to find opposing orders. English investigations have categorized synchronized large deposits followed by concentrated selling and high volume stagnation as suspected coordinated selling or wash trading, rather than ordinary market making rebalancing.

The operational conclusion provided is that when a token is covered by high-frequency, similarly significant positive news in a short time, it is often looking for liquidity to sell; most traders should assume that related reports have a stance, cross-verify, and not treat news flashes as opening signals.

In market mechanisms, buyers are retail liquidity chasing after hundred-fold screenshots and sell-offs after negative news, while sellers are internal market tokens and exchange depth. The event is driven by market maker inventory and promotional rhythm, with funds flowing from later buyers to those who can reopen platforms, inflate volume, and control unlock narratives; benefiting are the market makers who can invalidate a platform for a few dozen dollars in network fees, while pressured are traders who treat media headlines as position signals.

The U.S. Department of Justice has previously sued market makers for wash trading and collusion in cases like NexFundAI, and on-chain analysis has repeatedly pointed out high internal warehouse ratios, unilateral reassignments, and the same script of wash trading followed by sell-offs. These are publicly known structural methods, not validations of a specific Chinese revelation.

Source: Public Information

ABAB AI Insight

The internal market does not discover prices; it filters opposing orders. A launch platform can open tens of thousands of platforms in a day, and the true option for market makers is to "invalidate and reopen," not to "take early buyers with $100 along." Whoever first washes cheap tokens from others has the space for subsequent price increases. Hundred-fold address screenshots are customer acquisition ads, not profit distributions.

The capital path is divided into two segments: the internal market uses network fees to buy clearing rights; the secondary market uses unlocks, hacking, issuance, and exchange inflows to buy panic. Short selling through borrowing and then buying back, synchronized funding across multiple wallets to inflate volume, and wash trading before listings have repeatedly appeared in English cases and on-chain research. Money flows from retail market orders into market makers' inventories and project unlock tables.

Similar to stock market wash trading combined with research reports for selling, and shell companies changing names before speculation. Crypto is in a phase where "issuance costs are close to zero, and law enforcement is inconsistent," making wash trading cheaper and more frequent than traditional stock manipulation. The FBI using fake tokens to bait market makers indicates that the methods have been standardized, not just isolated cases.

Structurally, this is about the transfer of pricing power. The mechanism is: whoever can simultaneously control supply unlocks, exchange addresses, and narrative switches can set prices. Media headlines are liquidity switches, and on-chain transfers are props. Those who cross-verify are buying volatility, while those treating news flashes as signals are providing opposing orders for that volatility.

ABAB News · Cognitive Laws

  1. The lower the opening cost, the cheaper the wash.

  2. The hundred-fold screenshot sells entry, not profit.

  3. Both negative and positive news can be tools for selling.