The trading volume from the top 6 NFT marketplaces hit 580 million during the month of February, up from $250 million the previous month.
marketplaces saw a rise in NFT wash trading for the fourth straight month with a total volume of $580 million.from CoinGecko, February 2023 witnessed a 126% increase from the previous month’s volume of $250 million. As for a reason for the jump, the report points to a correlation with the overall recovery of NFT marketplace trading volume, which hit $1.89 billion in February.
The six marketplaces included in the report were Magic Eden, OpenSea, Blur, X2Y2, CryptoPunks and LooksRare. X2Y2, Blur and LooksRare played the largest roles in February’s volume for NFT wash trading with $280 million , $150 million and $80 million , respectively.These marketplaces have previously incentivized users to increase trading volume via transaction rewards.
The other two marketplaces, Magic Eden and OpenSea, have a reported $590,000 and $42.57 million in NFT wash trading. CryptoPunks, on the other hand, didn't see any NFT wash trading, according to the report.The CoinGecko report revealed NFT washing trading to have made up a combined 23.4% of “unadjusted trading volume” across the industry’s six largest marketplaces. Wash trading of NFTs is the manipulation of trade volume or price through repeated transactions.
While in traditional financial markets, wash trading is illegal, due to a lack of clear regulations this issue can be found in both the broader crypto space and with NFTs.
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