As a Texas-born crypto analyst with Brazilian roots, I’ve seen this kind of volatility before. OPUL’s erratic 1-hour movements—peaks at $0.0449, dips to $0.0307, trading volumes spiking past 750K—are not noise. They’re a signal. Behind the raw data lies a pattern: low liquidity masked by fake volume spikes and bot-driven washes. Here’s what it really means for DeFi tokenomics in LatAm markets.