1. No person shall engage in or attempt to engage in market manipulation.
2. For the purposes of this Regulation, market manipulation shall comprise any of the following activities:
(a) unless carried out for legitimate reasons, entering into a transaction, placing an order to trade or engaging in any other behaviour which:
(i) gives, or is likely to give, false or misleading signals as to the supply of, demand for, or price of, a crypto-asset;
(ii) secures, or is likely to secure, the price of one or several crypto-assets at an abnormal or artificial level;
(b) entering into a transaction, placing an order to trade or any other activity or behaviour which affects or is likely to affect the price of one or several crypto-assets, while employing a fictitious device or any other form of deception or contrivance;
(c) disseminating information through the media, including the internet, or by any other means, which gives, or is likely to give, false or misleading signals as to the supply of
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