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Popular blockchain investigator says the firm’s leaked report shows “highly questionable services .” Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT called out Gotbit, a crypto market maker, for offering dubious services as the list of the firm’s services became public. In an X post on Sunday, Sept. 24, ZachXBT posted a screenshot of Gotbit’s services , which the firm is ready to offer to its clients. I would be weary of any projects you see working with the market maker @gotbit_io as a leaked report shows highly questionable services offered. Gotbit claims: “During the first minutes in the price discovery stage we are going to push the price up to 10x to create FOMO and… pic.twitter.com/ndvrNlG3VW — ZachXBT (@zachxbt) September 24, 2023 According to the leak, Gotbit is capable of pumping a token’s price “to create FOMO [fear of missing out]” in order to reach “extreme Xs and sell maximum tokens on the subsequent spike.” Gotbit claim...

Nearly 10,000 tokens launched on BNB and Ethereum last year are suspected to have been created just to dump on investors, according to Chainalysis. Cryptocurrency investors funneled as much as $4.6 billion into crypto tokens suspected to be part of “pump and dump” schemes in 2022. A Feb. 16 report from blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis “analyzed all tokens launched” in 2022 on the BNB and Ethereum blockchains and found just over 9,900 bore characteristics of a "pump and dump" scheme. A pump-and-dump scheme typically involves the creators orchestrating a campaign of misleading statements, hype, and Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) to persuade investors into purchasing tokens while secretly selling their stake in the scheme at inflated prices. Chainalysis estimated investors spent $4.6 billion worth of crypto buying the nearly more than 9,900 different suspected fraudulent token s it identified. The most prolific purported Pump and dump creator Chainalysis identified — who wa...