By Nermeen Nabil Khear 
Over the last 24 hours, the crypto market crashed hard. There’s blood in the crypto streets. Bitcoin was down almost 5%. However, altcoins took a much harder hit and some were down 15% to 20%. My portfolio was down 10% today. That hurts, and we believe, more pain is on the way!
It seems some massive manipulation is happening in the market. This video is all about that and how you can protect your portfolio from more damage in the biggest market manipulation by CEXes witnessed ever.
What Is Happening?
So, here’s what’s happening. Alt season hasn’t happened yet. That’s because there’s not much liquidity available. I’m looking at my portfolio and instead of a 10x, it’s in the red. 
Source: Blockchain center
There are two main contributing factors to this,
Pump.fun extracted liquidity from the market. Some people got rich from memes. However, most people lost money on all the rugs and bad actors. Now, most money lost on memes is not coming back into the crypto market.
So Pump Fun has made $500m in fees. And there’s now billions worth of SOL permanently locked forever in liquidity pools of dead pump and dump memecoins on Raydium. It’s likely the biggest and most extractive scam in crypto history. Retail traders absolutely destroyed by the meta.
— Beanie (@beaniemaxi) January 27, 2025
Furthermore, memes also add diversity to the market. There are too many coins. Picking a winner right now is much more difficult than during previous bull runs. In simple terms, during the last bull run there were 3 million coins, now there are 36 million.
Why ALTSEASON is delayed ?
In 2013-2014 – 500 tokens
In 2017-2018 – 3,000 tokens
In 2021 – 300k- 3M tokens
Today in 2025 – 36.4 million Tokens
and expected to reach 100 million.Market is Diluted AF, Exchanges only
listing memes to grab volume and
grow their user base.… pic.twitter.com/kf6ov8owGe— Ash Crypto (@Ashcryptoreal) January 26, 2025
Bitcoin ETFs are also part of the liquidity issue. The short version is that they are positive for Bitcoin adoption. However, no profits made on Bitcoin gains trickle into alts. Remember, with an ETF you don’t own the actual asset, the firm that offers the ETF owns the asset.
But there is more. There’s also market manipulation by big, centralized exchanges or CEXes. Here’s the short version of how this works. In a moment, I will dig deeper into the details. These CEXes, are sending funds to Wintermute. This is a market maker. In turn, Wintermute sells the assets on the spot markets of these exchanges. I’ve been following Marty Party on his X account. He came up with this theory, and he claims to have on-chain evidence to prove this as well.
Liquidation Levels – 7:20pm Feb 24th #Binance Royal Flush continues as lower levels of max pain are capitulated.
Let this be a lesson newcomers to crypto.
Binance and other offshore crypto exchanges will use assets on their exchange to manipulate the market to support their… pic.twitter.com/hqMm1h20ax
— MartyParty (@martypartymusic) February 25, 2025
In the last few weeks, he has shown evidence on his X account. This includes big name CEXes, like Binance, Kraken, and also ByBit. So, let’s dig in a little deeper.
The Evidence
Exchanges sending funds to Wintermute has been going on for months. Here’s a post from 28th January this year.
Binance continues sending millions in $BTC $ETH and $SOL to Wintermute Market Maker to market sell on its exchange. They are the only entities selling digital assets and drawing charts.
The reason Im sharing this intel is to show you nobody is selling but the market makers – buy… pic.twitter.com/DdWaXFJT4F
— MartyParty (@martypartymusic) January 28, 2025
The idea is to liquidate leveraged long or short positions. So, these are exchanges that offer perp options. In case you get liquidated, have a guess where that money goes? That’s right, into the coffers of the exchanges.
CEX Long Liquidations 24hrs@Bybit_Official whips up a quick $423m profit in 1 day – dont feel sorry for them. @benbybit comments?
This is at the entire global crypto markets expense. $1.5b is nothing for these offshore enterprises that prey on any crypto bullishness.
Total… pic.twitter.com/YptljlAjJM
— MartyParty (@martypartymusic) February 25, 2025
This way they manipulate the markets. For example, if many users build up long positions on $ETH, the exchange sends $ETH to Wintermute. In turn, Wintermute now sells the $ETH on the spot market of that exchange. As a result, providing they sell enough $ETH, the long positions get liquidated due to leverage or hitting stop-losses.
MM Update: @krakenfx also sending $SOL $SUI and $ETH to #Wintermute – this behavior will not be forgotten.
Remove all crypto off exchanges – @krakenfx @binance @Bybit_Official all not to be trusted.
Full analysis of my investigation into these centralized cartels coming out… pic.twitter.com/SFKakj7hjx
— MartyParty (@martypartymusic) February 24, 2025
This works the same with other assets, like $BTC, $SOL, or stables. Often, exchanges send combinations of assets to Wintermute. In other words, even if we, retail, aren’t selling, the market maker draws the charts.
Most of these exchanges are offshore exchanges. In other words, they aren’t regulated. However, it’s not limited to offshore exchanges. Exchanges mentioned include Binance, Kraken, ByBit, OKX, MEXC, and Coinbase. So, there are also US-based exchanges involved. It seems that all or most exchanges that offer perps, are taking part.
Digital Asset ETF News: As Ive been stressing, the offshore arguably criminal centralized exchanges are panicking because digital assets will be moving to regulated trading rails like the @NASDAQ and @CBOE as the new US Crypto Task Force accelerates its push for regulatory…
— MartyParty (@martypartymusic) February 25, 2025
For example, here’s a chart showing Binance sending $SOL to Wintermute. It shows how the charts fit. Apparently, Binance sent 1 million $SOL in this case. This helped to drop the $SOL price from well over $200 to where it is now, around $135.
MMUpdate: Note how looking at #Binance $SOL balance (left) and #Wintermute $SOL balance (right) the two charts fit perfectly into each other. $SOL sent to the MM to dump price and returned. Roughly 1m $SOL was used to drop price from $300 to $150. The same is true for most alt… pic.twitter.com/bollGezekq
— MartyParty (@martypartymusic) February 24, 2025
There are of course also other factors at work. This is not the only reason prices drop. Macro events like tariff wars also contribute. The current Trump government is causing a lot of worldwide market uncertainty. Check today’s video by Cody. However, it sure looks like these exchanges also have a hand in manipulating the markets.
What Can You Do?
Wintermute’s CEO, Evgeny Gaevoy, reacted on his X account to these allegations. He denies any wrongdoing. In a long thread, he explains how Wintermute works. However, in the comments, he catches a lot of heat. Most of the commenters seem to side with Marty Party.
What Wintermute does thread
It’s been exceptionally “fun” on twitter last few days with some accounts hitting new lows in terms of market structure understanding. I’ve written a few times in the past about what we do and how we prefer to do things, but maybe it’s a good time for…
— wishfulcynic.eth (@EvgenyGaevoy) February 3, 2025
So, that brings us to the next step, what can you do to protect yourself? The first and most important step is not to leave your assets on an exchange.
Move your assets off the exchanges to your noncustodial wallets. Remember, not your keys, not your funds. Alternatively, you can use a DEX. See yesterday’s video, in which I discuss 4 popular DEX options. In general, you use a DEX with your noncustodial wallet. This way, your funds don’t remain on the exchange.
PSA: Buy all the spot $SOL $SUI $XRP $ADA $ETH $BTC and all precious L1 tokens and store them in self custody in your own network wallet.
I’m not a tribalist. I believe in all L1 blockchains and want to see them all benefit the masses. But this is a critical time.
IMO: Within…
— MartyParty (@martypartymusic) February 25, 2025
Now that we’re talking noncustodial wallets, your best option is to have a cold or hardware wallet. Hardware wallets keep your private keys offline. They are physical devices. You can see a few samples in a moment.
They are more secure than hot wallets. For instance, like MetaMask, Phantom, Keplr, or other popular hot wallet options. These hot wallets are directly connected to an app. They’re convenient, but not as secure as a hardware wallet.
Hardware Wallets
Some samples of hardware wallets are, for instance,
Keep in mind that you are your own bank now. That means that you’re in control of your assets. However, this also brings responsibility with it.
Like, if you lose your recovery phrase, you lose control over your assets. That’s why it’s a good consideration to have a seed phrase recovery tool. These are made of metal that can withstand water or fire damage.
So, what is your view on the market manipulation by these CEXes? Do you agree or do you side with Wintermute and the CEXes? And do you have a hardware wallet that you use? If so, which one? Let me know in the comments. Join us also in our social media discussions on Discord and X.
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