Late last night, crypto exchange Bitfinex resolved a platform outage that temporarily halted trading.
“We are investigating issues related to reduced platform performance and have temporarily halted trading,” the exchange’s official X account states. job.
About two hours later, Bitfinex said it identified the issue and began implementing a fix.
Less than ten minutes later, the exchange announced that it was close to completion and would return to view-only mode with the ability to cancel orders five minutes before trading reopened.
The issue was officially resolved at 3:48 UTC.
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