Market Integrity and Anti-fraud Rules

Market integrity and anti-fraud rules exist to keep crypto markets fair and honest. They aim to stop insiders, manipulators, and scammers from secretly rigging prices while everyday users lose money.

These rules come from traditional finance and now apply to crypto as markets grow and attract real capital. Regulators expect honest pricing, real demand, and no cheating whether trading happens on an exchange or through smart contracts.

In crypto, these rules target practices like pump-and-dumps, wash trading, insider trading, fake volume, misleading statements, and outright scams.
Being on-chain doesn’t make manipulation legal.

The simple rule is that If you deceive people or manipulate prices to profit unfairly, the law can step in.
Clean, transparent markets build trust and trust is what allows crypto to survive long-term.

There's also privacy laws Regulating crypto..
Privacy laws were created long before crypto and now apply to crypto apps, exchanges, wallets, and DeFi front ends. They usually require companies to collect only necessary data, explain its use, protect it from breaches, respect user rights, and report leaks quickly.