*Wintermute Insider Just Leaked Market Maker Secrets 🔥*

A KOL on Twitter interviewed a former Wintermute employee, who exposed how one of the biggest crypto market makers actually plays the game: fake pumps, spoofing, front-running — and how they trap retail. Here's the core

*Who’s Wintermute?*

A top market maker. They don’t just trade — they control the market. Mostly operate on Binance.

*Liquidity ≠ helping you 💧*

They dominate volumes, place fake walls, and manipulate demand. Volatility? They create it — when it’s profitable.

*Spoofing is standard 🎭*

They place fake buy/sell orders. Retail reacts. Then the wall disappears — price flips, and retail loses.

*They trap you like this 🪤*

Price hits resistance → they trigger a breakout → dump into it. You buy, they sell. Classic rinse.

*Front-running is real ⚡* ️

With faster APIs, they see your order flow before you do.

_Can you beat them? Not with speed. But you can win by:_

* Tracking liquidity shifts

* Ignoring spoofed walls

* Front-running their narratives

* Watching wallets via Arkham

* Taking profit when the crowd goes FOMO

Full thread (https://x.com/DeFiMidas/status/1947981402471043302)

🪬 _Did he really leak alpha - or is that part of the trap too?_