Welcome to Bitfinex Announcements.

This is an official Bitfinex channel, organised and run by the Bitfinex team, intended to bring you timely announcements, platform updates, token listing news and more.

Bitfinex & Irisium collaborate to improve digital asset market integrity.

https://medium.com/bitfinex/bitfinex-adopts-trade-surveillance-platform-irisium-62aff2d51c3c

This integration will strengthen Bitfinex’s existing market monitoring tools, bolstering our ability to identify, investigate and mitigate manipulative trading behaviours on our platform, and subsequently contribute to a new global standard of digital asset market transparency.

We will be deploying a platform update today, March 21st, between 8:00am UTC and 17:00pm UTC. You should expect an interruption of approximately 2 hours where trading and financing will be unavailable.

We will provide timely progress updates here, on Twitter and http://bitfinex.statuspage.io throughout the entirety of the upgrade. We apologise for the inconvenience and look forward to presenting you with an improved trading platform.

The update has been deployed successfully and trading is once again live on Bitfinex.

We appreciate your patience over the past few hours!

Statement on the Venezuelan Petro Token (PTR)

http://blog.bitfinex.com/announcements/statement-venezuelan-petro-token/

We are pleased to announce a fiat expansion which will see the addition of new markets for BTC, ETH, NEO, EOS and IOTA, together with full support for both British Pounds (GBP) and the Japanese Yen (JPY).

https://twitter.com/bitfinex/status/979386073079001088

This week we deployed Hive - a distributed matching engine built around speed, stability and scalability.

https://twitter.com/bitfinex/status/984814868795707393