The cryptocurrency platform Bitfinex temporarily halted trading due to issues. Details were not provided.
We are investigating issues with the platform and have to temporarily halt trading. We will keep everyone updated on here and our status page https://t.co/u3pYCVVGQq as we know more.
We apologise for the inconvenience.— Bitfinex (@bitfinex) September 30, 2021
Bitfinex representatives said the platform resumed operation in ‘read-only’ mode at 12:55 UTC. Beginning at 13:00 UTC, users could cancel orders. Trading would resume at 13:05 UTC.
On the exchange status page, work to fix the outage is underway. The message appeared at 07:43 UTC.
In July a similar situation was observed. On that day, users resumed operations 1 hour and 45 minutes after trading was halted.
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