I am thedex and I did a single trade with an asset i own to proove how easy it can be to fake volume.
If there is no trading volume, there is no attractive, then DEX is nothing!
Fake volume brings a lot of liquidity, a large number of speculators, OKCoin and Huobi these later, the hot degree far beyond the early established Exchanges such as BTCChina, Yunbi and BTC38, have proved that people love to go where to trade.
OKCoin and Huobi provide leveraged transactions, zero commission fees, trading robots freely to provide market depth.
Liquidity is the value of Exchange, trading volume is TRUE or FAKE is not important, unable to attract traders, DEX will die.
Liquidity is evidence that the exchange works, and is valued by others, because
someone must be using it.
After that, all customers care about is whether the product works for a reasonable price. BitShares does work for a good price. So all is well.
Without seeing the trading already going on (liquidity), the user may never have made the trade in the first place.
So what if it's fake?
In the context of this particular thread, a faked tx volume doesn't seem to mean much for a top 100 traders.
But the top trader is still putting in the most effort to make it
look like they have the most volume. And that has value too, by attracting new customers. It's cultivating a brand image of a satisfactory product that 'everyone likes'.
It also shows that they have a willingness to show off their product or service.
I think there need to me more guides written for non-technical BTS shareholders to use the DEX to profit and provide liquidity at the same time