Scheduled Upkeep: Platform Downtime October 12, 2022

The Bitfinex Buying and selling Platform might be offline for a number of hours whereas we carry out a upkeep improve designed to reinforce the soundness and scalability of Bitfinex infrastructure.

The upkeep improve will begin at 8 AM UTC. Please plan accordingly.

Bitfinex might be performing a full platform upkeep operation which is able to consequence within the halt of buying and selling and the change being offline from three to seven hours on Wednesday, October twelfth, 2022, starting at 8 AM UTC. 

Please be aware that it is a tough estimate and the exact improve beginning time could change primarily based on market actions.

We might be upgrading our infrastructure, which is able to end in an improved buying and selling expertise. Through the scheduled upkeep, Merchants might be unable to log in to accounts, view or entry wallets and funds or execute trades. 

Please bear this upkeep in thoughts, and take any measures mandatory in regard to account changes previous to the beginning of the platform improve.

Merchants on Bitfinex is not going to be required to take any motion:

• All funds will stay secure and unaffected all through the platform improve and won’t be in danger at any level.
• No orders might be executed throughout downtime. All open orders might be saved (no matter worth actions) and resume as soon as the platform is again on-line.
• Clients is not going to be liquidated throughout downtime. Nevertheless, merchants ought to be conscious that if the worth strikes considerably throughout this time, they’re liable to liquidation as and when the platform is reopened. 
• In step with this, we kindly ask all merchants to evaluation their margin necessities and assess the danger of market motion on their open margin positions earlier than getting into the upkeep window.

For extra data, please confer with the Bitfinex Standing web page, Twitter account, and Bitfinex Weblog for official progress. We’ll present any data regarding the improve from these two sources on October twelfth.

We’ll let our prospects know 5 minutes earlier than the platform reopens. Buying and selling will begin ten minutes after the platform is accessible once more.

We respect your endurance through the system improve and look ahead to presenting you with an improved buying and selling expertise.