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5 articles tagged with #DEX.
Wash Trading on Solana DEXs: How Fake Volume Is Created and Detected
Wash trading — buying and selling the same asset between related accounts to generate artificial trading volume — has existed in financial markets for over a century. On regulated exchanges, it is illegal and actively prosecuted. On Solana's permissionless DEXs, it is unregulated, extremely inexpens
What Is Liquidity and Why Low-Liquidity Solana Tokens Are So Dangerous
You find a Solana token that looks promising. The price chart shows a clean uptrend. The community is active. The security checks pass on Hannisol and RugCheck. You're ready to buy. Then you check the liquidity pool depth and find $4,000 in total liquidity. With a $500 intended position, you'd be bu
What Is an AMM? Understanding Automated Market Makers on Solana
Before automated market makers existed, every decentralized exchange attempted to replicate the traditional order book model on-chain — requiring a buyer and a seller to agree on a price at the same moment. This approach produced extremely thin markets, wide bid-ask spreads, and poor execution quali
How Raydium and Orca Work: Solana's Leading DEXs Explained
When someone says they bought a Solana token "on DEX," there's a good chance the actual transaction settled through Raydium or Orca — or through Jupiter's routing layer, which splits trades across both. These two platforms collectively handle the majority of Solana's on-chain token trading volume, a
DEX vs. CEX: Why Most Solana Tokens Only Trade on Decentralized Exchanges
When you ask "where can I buy this token?" and the answer is Raydium or Jupiter — rather than Binance, Coinbase, or Kraken — that answer contains embedded information about the token's status in the ecosystem. It's not just a logistical detail about which interface to use. The difference between a C
