Anomalies in OKEx trading time distributions

Distinct surges in time-of-trade graphs indicate potential scheduled trading bots activity to obfuscate privacy coin laundering. Wash trading can also be a good explanation for such trading patterns. With many exchanges delisting privacy coins, OKEx’s Monero (XMR) and ZCash (ZEC) markets remained active through 2020 with abnormal trading patterns. XMR’s time of trade distribution on OKEx noticeably falls out of the common flow of activity observed on Binance and Huobi. ...