Cryptocurrency Market Manipulation Recovery
EthGuardians has a specialist division for recovering losses from market manipulation on cryptocurrency exchanges. When exchanges or bad actors rig futures rates, use wash trading, or engage in spoofing to liquidate positions, victims have legal recourse.
Types of Market Manipulation We Investigate
- Futures rate rigging: Exchanges setting artificial rates on futures contracts designed to liquidate retail positions
- Wash trading: Coordinated fake volume to manipulate price action
- Spoofing: Large fake orders to move price, then cancelled before execution
- Stop hunting: Deliberate price moves to trigger stop-loss orders at known levels
- Insider trading: Exchange employees or partners trading on non-public data
Exchanges Under Investigation
We have active cases involving manipulation on Binance, FTX (pre-collapse), and multiple offshore exchanges that set up rates specifically to liquidate client positions.
Evidence Gathering
Our forensic team analyses on-chain data, order book history, and funding rate patterns to build evidence of manipulation that supports legal claims.