🤖 Fake volume: spotting bot trades
Volume and trade counts are the first things people look at to judge if a coin is "hot". They are also easy to fake. A few bots making hundreds of tiny trades can make a dead coin look like the busiest one on the board.
How it is faked
- Bots buy and sell tiny amounts (often a few dollars or less) over and over.
- Spreading dust across many wallets also inflates the holder count.
- Trending lists that sort by trade count or volume then push the coin to more people.
How to spot it
- Divide volume by number of trades. Hundreds of trades worth a couple of dollars each is a red flag.
- Look at the recent trades list: the same tiny sizes repeating every few seconds.
- Compare holders to real buyers: lots of holders but few meaningful buys.
- Real interest looks messy: different sizes, different wallets, real money.
🛡 How GORZ shows it
- GORZ checks the average trade size against the trade count and flags "fake activity: bot dust trades" when a coin is busy but almost all its trades are tiny.
- The flag explains itself, for example: 900 trades in 5 minutes but only $1.9K traded.
● Live on GORZ: Coins flagged for fake activity recently
Real coins from the last day. What was seen on-chain, not a prediction or advice.
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Questions
Is high volume always good?
No. Volume only matters if it is real buyers. Check trade sizes and how many different wallets are trading.
Why would anyone fake volume?
To get on trending lists and attract real buyers, who then become the exit for the people faking it.
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