Pump-And-Dump Meets Honeypot Tokens: Detection and Analysis of Telegram Bait-And-Trap Schemes

While Pump-and-Dump schemes have been extensively studied on centralized exchanges CEXs, how they operate in decentralized exchanges DEXs remains largely unexplored. We monitor 83 Telegram channels used to coordinate Pump-and-Dump campaigns and collect 3,677 events across the BNB Smart Chain and...