Statistically it will be higher by definition because market abuse is one of the mechanisms that con artists use to get a hype cycle going. So I would think th

Statistically it will be higher by definition because market abuse is one of the mechanisms that con artists use to get a hype cycle going. So I would think that from that it follows that if there is a hype cycle it has a higher-than-normal probability to have been generated by market abuse. The most basic form of this is the "pump and dump" but there are a lot of others. In the crypto world it seems wash trading backwards and forwards to generate volume and inflate perception of market price has been endemic for some time.