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Bitfinex is a crypto-currency exchange trading and currency-storage platform based out of Taiwan, owned and operated by iFinex Inc. Since 2014, it has been the largest Bitcoin exchange platform, with over 10% of the exchange's trading.

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  • BigTrout300
    $BigTrout Mode🌊🐟 (@BigTrout300) reported

    Jane Street is not the reason BTC is down. Hope this helps! - 9 Fig Bitfinex Whale

  • BillyCarvelli
    Carvelli Master of Finance (@BillyCarvelli) reported

    BTC extends sell-off -2.32% to $82,301 on Bitfinex. Breaks below $83Kβ€”2026 low territory amid ETF outflows, higher-for-longer rates narrative & gold rotation. $81K support critical. #Bitcoin #BTC #CryptoMarkets

  • Bor1ngB1rd
    BB (@Bor1ngB1rd) reported

    @paoloardoino Can you fix funding matching engine of Bitfinex? it's slow af

  • apacfinstab
    APAC FINSTAB (@apacfinstab) reported

    THE COMPLIANCE MATRIX: Why 94% of Web3 Projects Are Faking It I built a compliance capability matrix tracking 847 projects across 6 dimensions. The results are devastating. Here's what real compliance looks like vs. what most projects claim: ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE SIX PILLARS ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. TRAVEL RULE (FATF R.16) Requires: originator + beneficiary info on ALL transactions Reality check: β€’ Coinbase: Full implementation βœ“ β€’ Binance: Partial (EU only) β€’ 96% of CEXs: "In progress" for 3+ years The "sunrise problem" is real. FATF's June 2025 report explicitly called out "persistent gaps in VASP implementation." VASPs in lax jurisdictions have zero incentive to comply. The network effect fails. 2. AGENT KYC (Know Your Agent) The new frontier. 3,421 AI agents now move $8B+ monthly on DEXs. Who has native agent identity? β€’ Virtuals Protocol: ERC-8004 compliant βœ“ β€’ Everyone else: Nothing This is the biggest compliance gap in Web3 right now. Agents have no passports. No identity framework. No accountability chain. Regulators haven't caught up yetβ€”but they will. 3. PROOF OF RESERVES After FTX, everyone claimed transparency. Real-time, third-party audited reserves: β€’ Kraken βœ“ β€’ Bitfinex βœ“ β€’ 89% of exchanges: "Trust us bro" Monthly attestations β‰  proof of reserves. If you can't verify it on-chain in real-time, it's marketing. 4. SANCTIONS SCREENING OFAC compliance isn't optional for anyone touching US users. Full OFAC + EU + UN screening: β€’ Circle (USDC): Full βœ“ β€’ Fireblocks: Full βœ“ β€’ Most DeFi: Zero Tornado Cash was the warning shot. The next enforcement wave targets protocols that "couldn't have known" their users were sanctioned. 5. MARKET MANIPULATION DETECTION Wash trading, spoofing, layeringβ€”traditional finance crimes now in DeFi. Native manipulation detection: β€’ dYdX: Implemented βœ“ β€’ Hyperliquid: Implemented βœ“ β€’ 90% of DEXs: "What's spoofing?" 6. CROSS-BORDER DATA COMPLIANCE GDPR, PDPA, PIPLβ€”user data crosses borders, regulations don't. Full multi-jurisdiction data compliance: β€’ Coinbase βœ“ β€’ Kraken βœ“ β€’ Most projects: Single-jurisdiction only ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ THE MATRIX VERDICT ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ I scored 847 projects. Here's the distribution: 6/6 pillars: 4 projects (0.5%) 5/6 pillars: 12 projects (1.4%) 4/6 pillars: 31 projects (3.7%) 3/6 pillars: 89 projects (10.5%) 2/6 pillars: 247 projects (29.2%) 1/6 pillars: 464 projects (54.8%) 94% of Web3 projects score 3/6 or below. The gap isn't a bugβ€”it's a $50B+ infrastructure opportunity. Who builds the compliance layer that makes 94% β†’ institutional-grade? That's the 2026 thesis. APAC FINSTAB tracks this weekly. The next cycle won't be won by the fastest chain. It'll be won by whoever solves compliance at scale. The matrix doesn't lie.

  • iamsaintju
    The Quantum Thinker (@iamsaintju) reported

    Bittensor decentralizes AI model training through incentivized nodes, creating a marketplace for AI services with $ multi-B cap potential as AI-blockchain convergence grows. Institutional support (e.g., from Bitfinex and AI agent payments) and on-chain metrics (network value from model submissions) suggest 3-5x upside in a bull cycle. As the highest-cap AI crypto, it's positioned for ETF-like products and partnerships.

  • Shinyethdot
    Shiny_boy (@Shinyethdot) reported

    @Typeczek @bitfinex Raylslab not slowing down at all

  • OfficialScalpx
    SCALPX (@OfficialScalpx) reported

    Bitfinex futures are down 7% (NYSEdaq-B) from last month and they're in the midst of a 10 week bear market on their own with an average daily price below $25,000 AUD which means that it's time to start trading again! But I don't care if BTC is stable (-2.0%) ETH is dropping (-...

  • xknoxbt
    Knox (@xknoxbt) reported

    @mert but ser, zcash isnt really immune: components such as signatures, proof verification and note encryption still depend on pre-quantum primitives that could eventually be broken (Bitfinex) the Orchard pool specifically runs on Pallas/Vesta curves, which are still elliptic-curve assumptions a sufficiently capable quantum adversary could compromise proof soundness and note confidentiality in the current stack

  • nobraintrader1
    EmptyBrainTrader (@nobraintrader1) reported

    Also seeing some insane takes on CT why we bounced today. - Market makers being told to lay off selling - Jane street sued - CZ being tied down and forced to bid. - bitfinex longs ( canr believe we still do this like 2022) Wheres rhe good old fashioned more buyers than seller

  • marketgeniusx
    Market Genius (@marketgeniusx) reported

    $27M is 0.9% of their $3B position. That is not a dump, that is a rounding error. More likely Bitfinex margin collateral or OTC facilitation. Track the order book depth on Bitfinex over the next 48h -- if no large market sells appear, this was treasury management, not distribution.

  • RMihaljevich
    Rob Mihaljevich (@RMihaljevich) reported

    @Polymarket @LaLiga @FCBarcelona I tried depositing a couple hundred euro worth from btc bitfinex into polymarket about a year ago. Something went wrong, I don't know what, tried to contact your help about 5 times, never heard back. Money gone who knows where?

  • crypto100times
    Crypto 100X (@crypto100times) reported

    @coinbureau 79,343 BTC longs at Bitfinex mirrors Nov 2023 levels when BTC was ~$35K. Correlation with STH inflows suggests potential liquidity flush if price tests $65K support. Historical squeeze events show 15-20% corrections in crowded positions.

  • gascope
    gascope.com (@gascope) reported

    Alright, I need to create a viral crypto post for X (Twitter) based on the given article. Let's break it down. First, the title is "Bitfinex Degens Double Down as Solv Reinvents the Vault: A Leverage Limbo". #crypto #cryptonews $BTC

  • moglincj
    moglin (@moglincj) reported

    @Shrmurda @RaylsLabs **** no, bitfinex literally has no trading volume for alts

  • grok
    Grok (@grok) reported

    @Theolojism @CryptoPete11 @DavidFBailey Reports from ZachXBT and sources like The Block indicate the stolen $40M+ included Ethereum (ETH) and Tron (TRX), with links to a U.S. government Bitcoin wallet from the 2016 Bitfinex hack seizure. Not exclusively Bitcoin. No official gov confirmation yet.

  • DPGSpurs
    Dude (@DPGSpurs) reported

    @adam3us @bitfinex And yet we’re down Adam. Bitcoin mined per day is no longer relevant in this regard. Selling of coins in circulation is all that matters.

  • DereckWDew
    ArsObKSC (@DereckWDew) reported

    @CsTominaga I was just having a conversation with a very close friend it was in crypto as I got in in 2018. We were discussing how I had been banned from whale pool by flibbr for calling him out as a fraudster. And their little Sunday circle jerk to manipulate the market for bitfinex scam coin tether between he and Phil Potter. I had become aware of too many questionable details of Matthew Mellon and as you figured out I'm a mouthpiece probably when I shouldn't be and I had not quite pieced together the Thiel/JE hijack portion. A challenged Tom to send his goons knowing he was a billionaire bankster, but I don't intimidate or scare so I was quite serious and as I just said I did not yet realize the deeper darker connections. I knew well aware of the multijurisdictional action against human traffickers that you help bring to justice and the previous to COPA trial where the acknowledgment of your origins was a bargain that would've landed you triple digit prison terms or forfeiting billions.… My friend was a hardliner and I think he quite now realizes that there was a very serious coordination that had to happen to discredit you. My friend has come around to realize what was actually happening and I never thought I would see that day. I didn't want to spam your Substack messages and this is probably stupid of me to message, but if we don't side on immutable truth what are we doing? The more I sit in preponderance, the greater the respect i have for your character, motives, & actions. Well I may as well be in another universe, if ever you need something & you're not sure whom to trust. People will silence the truth over my dead body. All I have is my word, but I'm here for the steadfast & honourable. For some of we students of Budō, exist as more than annoying internet mouthpieces. LVX. BitCoin. Brotherhood. πŸ‘ŠπŸ₯‹ Anytime. I need nothing. 🫑

  • solgem5
    SolGems πŸ’Ž (@solgem5) reported

    @misterrcrypto Bitfinex longs hitting ATH while spot ETF flows are cooling? Classic setup. When leverage peaks and retail FOMO dies down, that's when the real move starts. Watch for the flush before the moon.

  • GameWillis
    William LEBRUN (@GameWillis) reported

    @bitfinex Too long… and btc is going down…

  • First1Bitcoin
    First1Bitcoin (@First1Bitcoin) reported

    🚨 BITFINEX WHALES MOVE 🚨 Bitfinex whales are dumping BTC longs πŸ‘€ A pattern that has historically preceded major upside. πŸ“‰ Long holdings down ~220,000 BTC in 2025 🎯 $135K Bitcoin price target back on the radar Smart money positioning before the next leg?

  • 2xswap
    2xswap (@2xswap) reported

    here's what most people get wrong about ETF inflows. "$700M flowed into bitcoin ETFs this week" sounds like $700M of new buying pressure. it's not. Bitfinex analysts broke down the mechanics: a significant portion of ETF inflows are basis trades. institutional funds buy the ETF and simultaneously short bitcoin futures. the net directional pressure on price is close to zero. the math: β€’ $155M in ETF inflows on Wednesday β€’ open interest on CME futures also rose ~$150M β€’ correlation between ETF flows and CME OI: 0.87 that 0.87 correlation means most of the "inflow" is hedge funds arbitraging the futures premium, not making a directional bet on bitcoin going up. real demand indicators to watch instead: β€’ on-chain accumulation by long-term holders (still declining) β€’ exchange outflows (mixed) β€’ stablecoin supply on exchanges (growing = bullish) ETF inflow headlines sell. the order book tells a different story.

  • grok
    Grok (@grok) reported

    @YrenosVintzone @cryptorover Based on recent data, Bitfinex long positions are at new cycle highs, suggesting bullish whale sentiment. BTC price as of today is around $87,650, down from a Jan 15 ATH of ~$97,000, with some downward pressure noted. Volatility aheadβ€”DYOR, this isn't financial advice.

  • TraderWorst
    Patrick (@TraderWorst) reported

    Centralization cost real points: BNB: 80 β†’ 74.5 (27 super-reps, Binance controls the set) TRX: 72 β†’ 67.5 (same problem) LEO: 48.5 (Bitfinex controls everything, barely listed elsewhere) Logos on a council page β‰  decentralization.

  • grok
    Grok (@grok) reported

    @srqhappy99 @JacobKinge @1NationUnderXRP No, that's not accurate. My search of court documents and reports shows no such admission by Tether's lawyers. A 2018 internal Bitfinex email warned BTC could drop below $1K amid reserve issues, but it's not a court admission about Tether propping up prices. Tether settled related NYAG probes in 2021 without admitting wrongdoing. Sources: NYAG filings, Bitcoin Magazine.

  • CryptoPulseGLBL
    CryptoPulse (@CryptoPulseGLBL) reported

    πŸ””#Today's Headlines 1. #Bitcoin briefly rebounded, breaking above $67,000 2. Long positions in BTC/USD on Bitfinex rose to 79,343, the highest level since November 2023 3. The probability that the Fed will keep interest rates unchanged in April is 97.9% 4. @Walmart-owned OnePay has added over a dozen new tokens to its crypto services 5. #Solana-backed Artelo Biosciences raise an additional $11 million 6. Lido DAO proposes a one-time $20 million buyback of LDO 7. Polygon Founder: Stablecoin transaction volume on the Polygon chain reached nearly 160 million last week, setting a new record 8. Michael Saylor: STRC’s volatility over the past 30 days has been lower than that of S&P 500 components; no information on a Bitcoin Tracker has been released yet 9. @gnosis_ and Zisk launch the β€œEthereum Economic Zone” rollup framework, funded by the Ethereum Foundation 10. CoinList will support OneFootball’s token TGE on April 9ling'dang

  • EdgeInvestingg
    EdgeTrading (@EdgeInvestingg) reported

    @intocryptoverse I do not know why you are comparing ISM to bitcoin in 2014. Bitcoin had no macro narrative at that time. It was a play of handful people with issues like Mt Gox, bitfinex hack etc. Bitcoin was facing teething issues with no trust in it as an asset class, why would have it followed business cycle. 2017 was the first year (despite strong speculation) when you can consider wider investor trust followed by 2020 when tradfi entered bitcoin. So comparing its move with ISM is useless in 2014. Check SPX / NDX during that time both went up approx 18% during the year. You are becoming Analysis Paralysis.

  • Codiox
    ⚑Eduardo πŸ‡»πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡¦πŸ‡·βš‘ (@Codiox) reported

    @whalecalls @quadcommas Bitfinex 2015 flash crash will be forever burned in my retina. Watching bitcoin go down 25% in a hour while I was dirt poor and no cash to buy the dip. It was painful.

  • BitfinexReplies
    Bitfinex Replies (@BitfinexReplies) reported

    @Tryzub_X @bitfinex The market despite these signals remains unstable, it's impossible to know the direction. What you think about it? Feel free to follow us @Tryzub_X.

  • x10xalex
    Alex Buelau (@x10xalex) reported

    @FlorianMoi93884 @MagsinoCar49644 @shakelhan I redirected my attention to the blog post announcing the mainnet launch instead. I can give you my view here though: $RLS is listed in several exchanges in both Spot and Derivatives markets. The list includes Coinbase, Kraken, Bitfinex, Okex, Bybit, BitGet, Mexc, and others. We worked with some of these pre-TGE to list, others listed without even consulting us. A few days ago, Binance unilaterally announced they will delist $RLS from their futures platform. We reached out to them in our mutual Telegram chat, but their representative said he wasn't aware of the decision and that he cannot help. This is just for the derivatives (perps) market, $RLS is listed in several other top tier exchanges (as listed above), and we are talking some new top tier exchanges. I used to be a fan of Binance...

  • NakedEmperor_01
    NakedEmperor (@NakedEmperor_01) reported

    @adam3us @bitfinex Sad with all that buying and price is still trending down. Looking at the markets if I still held my Bitcoin at this point I would sell and buy in when it gets to 60k. Which is going to happen this year.