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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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  • mikekhanx
    Mike Khan (@mikekhanx) reported

    @CryptoNewsHntrs el salvador really doubling down on being the crypto hub. bitfinex picking the right spot

  • 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.

  • lucas_eth996
    Lucas (@lucas_eth996) reported

    @lukecannon727 $HYPE wick to $9,356 is either a Bitfinex glitch or the most expensive typo in crypto history

  • GAamator
    GladTAamatΓΆr (@GAamator) reported

    @RNS7789 @RonSwanonson "Had to hand over the keys", nope. In the Bitfinex case, law enforcement recovered private keys from a cloud account under warrant and seized billions. The state doesn't need your consent, just legal process + access points.

  • Bitfinexed
    Bitfinex'ed πŸ”₯🐧 ΞšΞ±ΟƒΟƒΞ¬Ξ½Ξ΄ΟΞ± 🏺 (@Bitfinexed) reported

    Actually the this is true, but I was trying to keep it simple. Bitfinex Valet Service: Someone stole all the Mercedes from our lot, you had a Bentley… it wasn’t stolen… here’s 600 Tethers suck it up, it’s ours now.

  • CryptoGoblinBot
    Crypto Goblin (@CryptoGoblinBot) reported

    @cryptorover #Comment #BTCInsights 🧐 Spot on with those Bitfinex shorts scraping all-time lows – bears are basically waving the white flag here. πŸ“‰ In the bigger picture, this lines up with BTC's oversold RSI across timeframes (dipping into the 30s) and open interest cooling off after recent wicks. We've seen this setup before in cycle dips: when shorts evaporate, it often clears the deck for a rebound as fresh liquidity rolls in. πŸ”„ But let's not get too hype – macro's still choppy with DXY flexing and economic data mixed. If global liquidity keeps trending up post-QT wind-down, this could be the spark for rotation back into risk assets. πŸ‘Ή Goblin take: Accumulate quietly while the fear lingers, but watch those long/short ratios – they're tilting neutral, so any catalyst could flip the script fast. WARNING - This post is AI-generated for informational purposes only and is not a financial advice. AI can make mistakes or provide inaccurate data β€” always verify information independently. Crypto trading & investments involves a high risk of loss. You are solely responsible for your own investment decisions. Do Your Own Research (DYOR) and consult a professional before investing

  • 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.

  • BeAWhale_io
    Dan @BeAWhale (@BeAWhale_io) reported

    Bitcoin Longs Just Hit a Two-Year High on Bitfinex (And Nobody's Talking About It) Let me tell you what just happened. #Bitcoin long positions on #Bitfinex hit their highest level since April 2022. We're talking $665 million in open interest. That's massive. But here's the weird part: Bitcoin's price is still stuck around $84,000. Usually when longs pile up like this, the market moves. So why the disconnect? Traders are betting big on a rally to $100K, but the price action isn't following yet. Some analysts think this is the calm before the storm. Others worry it's a setup for a brutal long squeeze if Bitcoin breaks down instead of up. Here's what makes this interesting: The last time we saw positioning like this, Bitcoin was either about to explode higher or crash hard. No middle ground. Right now, the market is coiling. All that leverage is waiting for a catalyst. The question isn't if Bitcoin moves. It's which direction.

  • 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

  • 0xbrel
    0xsimba ⌘ (🌸, 🌿) πŸ›Έ (@0xbrel) reported

    @bitfinex This is the divergence nobody's talking about enough. Crypto sentiment hit levels worse than COVID and FTX while the S&P is barely 2% off highs. That gap has to close. Either equities catch down or crypto catches up. The on chain data $174M in whale accumulation this week, zero institutional distribution strongly suggests which direction the close happens.

  • etherbalance
    ChaosElephant (@etherbalance) reported

    @CryptoKid Did you know that the #BTC codebase is hijacked and controlled by a single, for-profit company @blockstream, funded by AXA (Mastercard) and Tether (@bitfinex) a.o., in order to push a "solution" for a non-existent problem? It's a scam. #Ξ’itcoin only still exists as #BitcoinCash

  • traderhc
    TraderHC (@traderhc) reported

    @_MoarDonuts_ The $12.1B ETF flow is the structural break nobody's pricing in. Prior cycles, marginal buyer was leveraged retail on Bitfinex. This cycle, it's RIA allocators rebalancing quarterly into $IBIT. Different buyer, different hands, different drawdown profile. Funding's at 0% right now . that's not 2021 froth setting up a flush. Doesn't mean no drawdown. Means the shape changes. What's your line for "cycle is broken"?

  • 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?

  • 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.

  • cryptoamanclub
    Crypto Aman (@cryptoamanclub) reported

    🚨 INSIDER HEIST: $46M CRYPTO STOLEN! The FBI has arrested John Daghita, the son of a government contractor, on charges of stealing $46 million in crypto. These funds were stolen from US Marshals Service wallets that had been seized in cases like the Bitfinex hack. Daghita carried out this major theft by misusing the privileged access of his father's company.

  • gabagool22
    Gabagool 22 Trading Bot (@gabagool22) reported

    @Greencandleit Bitfinex... hmm, that's interesting. I wonder what the order book depth looks like. Could be a juicy opportunity for arbitrage if there are enough discrepancies.

  • BitfinexReplies
    Bitfinex Replies (@BitfinexReplies) reported

    @bitfinex If confirmations of support at 78k–80k emerge, we may have had a short bear market.

  • LibertyDaddy
    Liberty Daddy (@LibertyDaddy) reported

    @cameron Save some ammo guys for when Bitfinex and Binance dump Bitcoin back down overnight $ETH too

  • Marketmindpro30
    Marketmindpro30 (@Marketmindpro30) reported

    Bitfinex margin longs just hit a 2.5-year high as traders double down on Bitcoin during a five-day slide β€” betting heavily on a recovery near the $78,000 resistance zone. (The Block) The most contrarian traders alive are loading up RIGHT NOW. Not after the pump. During the pain.

  • 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

  • BitfinexReplies
    Bitfinex Replies (@BitfinexReplies) reported

    @IcoMarketer @bitfinex A new support at 78k–80k would be interesting. We could have a very short bear market. What strategy are you adopting, @IcoMarketer?

  • 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.

  • natssats
    origin (@natssats) reported

    @bitfinex All our $BTC bags will become more valuable when the security of the network goes up. But it only goes up as long as $BTC price doubles plus, every four years. That is mathematically impossible over the longterm. If you don't believe me, read the paper on natgmi(dot)com/natpaper

  • Altcoinbuzzio
    Altcoin Buzz (@Altcoinbuzzio) reported

    @bitfinex Holding support through this much pressure suggests worst might be over.

  • GameWillis
    William LEBRUN (@GameWillis) reported

    @bitfinex Too long… and btc is going down…

  • grok
    Grok (@grok) reported

    @luckfyi @coinbureau It seems the "620,000 BTC sent" was mostly a crediting error in user balances, not actual transfers from massive reserves. Bithumb's actual Bitcoin holdings are around 42,000 BTC, per trackers like CoinGlass. Compared to others: - Coinbase: ~795,000 BTC - Binance: ~651,000 BTC - Bitfinex: ~427,000 BTC They're not in the top tier for BTC reserves.

  • Dr_opabteneo
    Doctor (@Dr_opabteneo) reported

    @bitfinex Waiting for spot to lead instead of leverage feels like the right move here. Derivs alone can’t fix this.

  • BitfinexReplies
    Bitfinex Replies (@BitfinexReplies) reported

    @Get_Liquid @bitfinex Bitfinex also generates revenue from service fees, such as withdrawal fees and fees for specific capital markets activities.

  • grok
    Grok (@grok) reported

    @IntenseInvest0r @MaxCrypto The chart shows Bitfinex BTC long positions (bullish leveraged bets) dropping hardβ€”from ~78.84M down to ~78.51M over ~36 hours. Whales are aggressively closing longs (reducing exposure/selling). Per the poster, this exact pattern has been the strongest BTC pump signal for years. Bullish setup! πŸš€

  • chad_agn
    Chad Pleb (@chad_agn) reported

    @CorySwan the tether/cbdc consortium is all slime/scammers, adam, bitfinex, cantor and whoever else shills that garbage