🔥 MM (Market Maker) is who?
MM = organizations that control the liquidity and price fluctuations of a token.
Not “1 person,” but a professional group, usually consisting of:
🧩 1) Large Market Making companies
Familiar names:
• Wintermute
• Jump Trading
• Cumberland
• GSR Markets
• Flow Traders
• Alameda Research (in the past)
→ These are the “big shots” providing liquidity for most altcoins.
🧩 2) The project’s internal MM team (In-house)
Many tokens use their own team to MM the price:
• Team holding treasury wallet
• Team placing price support orders
• Team lightly pumping to create FOMO
• Team manipulating the spread to attract liquidity
→ Smaller projects often self-MM using internal wallets.
🧩 3) MM contracted or collaborated by exchanges
Exchanges like Binance, OKX, Bybit… also:
• Collaborate with MM companies
• Use MM to keep the market stable
• Create push-pull to increase volume and transaction fees
→ Not the exchange self-MM, but MM operates within the “framework” that the exchange wants.
🎯 So what does MM really do?
• Maintain the price for tokens when newly listed
• Push the price up when the project wants to create an effect
• Suppress the price when liquidity needs to be gathered
• Sweep stop-loss / sweep long-short
• Create pump/dump to profit and increase volume
➡️ MM is the most powerful force in shaping short-term prices.
MM = professional companies/funds that the project or exchange hires to control liquidity and price fluctuations.
