Crypto trading volumes growth: fake or real?

[Thadeous]

According to CMC, trading volumes of major crytocurrencies (BTC, ETH, EOS, LTC, etc.), experience constant growth since the middle of 2018. And it's obvious that the number of exchange platforms grows as well as number of trading bots on those exchanges.
But what about actual crypto interest which is represented by real people buying and selling crypto?
My guess is that there is no direct dependence between current crypto volume growth and actual crypto interest.

[dragononcrypto]

I think it is a major issue, if 95% of the volume is fake then the volume is not similar to December 2017 but the lowest BTC has seen in years. Personally I'm torn on these statistics, as there are some altcoins that are gaining more volume than ever before from the reputable exchanges. So it's definitely true in some cases that there is genuinely more volume for some coins, but it's quite obviously not the case for Bitcoin when you look at more respected exchanges.

[MVT$]

I think a good percentage of the trading volume are fake. Some of them are also just temporary due to the trading competitions done on  multiple exchanges.

[Bobcrypto]

I also think that most coins volume does not reflect on the actual trading activities on some of these exchanges. I have thought about this volume of a thing and it becoming obvious that must coins volumes are not real, they may be constantly adjusted to promote some of these coins/token in my opinion.

[sturec22]

Bitwise Asset Management went all in and filled a report to the SEC.

They found this:
- (Mostly) Legit exchanges trade history looks random, suspicious ones look a little too "perfect" and "predictable"
- Every buy has a corresponding sell on suspicious exchanges (typical of wash trading...)
- Spreads are tens to hundreds of dollars on 500 million volume Coinbene, compared to 0.01$ on Coinbase that has 1/18th their volume. 

[andrewBud]

If mining is carried out on a number of exchanges, then usually the trading volume is fake.  Now it is generally difficult to understand whether the volume is real or not.  On the other hand, the exchange is deductible fees - so they are interested in creating a certain amount.

[indexx]

Well, it depends on the coins that we refer to. Sometimes, the new coin that is listed will have the very great volume. However, some people sign that some of the trading volumes are fake or done by the team itself. However, why should be a matter? It may be one of the strategies.

[verifyme]

I don't know exactly how the volume of crypto trading in CMC can be defined as fake or not. Maybe it is the strategy of certain people or team in order to make the coins more interesting? Or the strategy to make the coins having a certain volume.

[vegasus]

I know that there are many exchanges that manipulate the trading volumes of some coins. But we should note that not all exchanges do the manipulation. Some of them still have real volumes on crypto trading, especially the most famous exchanges such as Binance, Kukoin, Coinbase, and etc.

[Shahinaz]

fake trade is very detrimental to investors, I think, because they manipulate the volume of sales with BOT, and they also often use competition so that the volume goes up, but in this way the market situation will not last long

[masterrex]

According to CMC, trading volumes of major crytocurrencies (BTC, ETH, EOS, LTC, etc.), experience constant growth since the middle of 2018. And it's obvious that the number of exchange platforms grows as well as number of trading bots on those exchanges.
But what about actual crypto interest which is represented by real people buying and selling crypto?
My guess is that there is no direct dependence between current crypto volume growth and actual crypto interest.

We must admit that some of the exchange platforms are doing fake trading volume to gather more users and its already the reality and because of these im not surprise the news because i doubt it as early as 2016.

[Luckyperson21]

I have no idea. Price increases and decreases are controlled by various parties. Maybe they only increase prices not because of interest.

[aiviaa485]

Only a few of the original volumes are in cryptocurrency trading.
I also see this news on Bitcoinist, and I am very sorry for this because I think fake volume will harm traders.

Look at Proof = https://bitcoinist.com/bitcoin-exchange-10-real-volume-bitwise/

[Ghozrd]

Some crypto exchanges show high trade transactions for the Crypto trade, if on trading volume there are many strange behaviors, I think all transactions still exist today even since the decline in prices of BTC and other coins all transactions will be recorded in the blockchain ledger.
If we see crypto's market capitalization at CMC increasing over time, I think this is real and I always adjust to the prices listed in crypto exchanges

[tsakf]

Growth, is real, because more and more people, find about cryptocurrencies. This will continue, until mass adoption. Then, there will be a slower growth, bacause of new projects.