The top six nonfungible token (NFT) marketplaces saw a rise in NFT wash trading for the fourth straight month with a total volume of $580 million.
According to a new report 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 (49.7%), $150 million (27.7%) and $80 million (15.1%), 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.
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