What Is Pump and Dump?

A pump and dump is a market manipulation scheme where insiders accumulate a token cheaply, artificially inflate its price through coordinated buying and promotion, then sell their holdings at the peak to unsuspecting buyers. The price then crashes. Sonar Tracker helps identify potential pump-and-dump patterns by flagging sudden whale accumulation followed by aggressive social promotion and unusual volume patterns.

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Market ManipulationWhaleWash Trading

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