Paid crypto market making enforcement actions

This library records 8 enforcement actions tagged paid crypto market making. Paid crypto market making is a token issuer hiring a self-described market maker whose actual service is to trade the token with itself or with confederates, manufacturing volume and price support instead of quoting genuine two-sided markets.

Actions are listed newest first. Each row links to a case page carrying the regulator's own release and, where one was published, the complaint. For how this technique works and what statute it engages, read the paid crypto market making technique page.

Actions

8

Total penalties

$1.7m

Median penalty

$834k

Largest

$1.2m

Criminal parallel

88%