Over $30B of NFT Trading Volume on Ethereum is Wash Trading, Research Suggests

To understand how prevalent the practice has become since the NFT markets emerged, when all of the filters were applied, over $30 billion of NFT trading volume from all time could be linked to wash trading. This number is staggering, though it only represents about 1.5% of all trades that have taken place on Ethereum. If that seems confusing, don’t worry: What it shows is that the majority of trades are legitimate, but happen at a generally lower price than the wash trades, which makes sense, when the point of many wash trades is to artificially inflate the price of an NFT collection.