Bitfinex Securities says the first tokenised investment funds on its platform — CMCC Global's Crest and Liberty Bitcoin Accumulation Fund (LBAF) — will also be the first tokenised fund-of-funds offerings under El Salvador's digital asset framework. The fund units are tokenised using Hadron by Tether, and Bitfinex said listings are coming soon.
Bitfinex shared research from Kaleidoswap showcasing a prototype on Arkade OS (the virtual execution layer built on the Ark protocol) in which assets move off-chain in milliseconds — with no channel to open and the receiver verifying the full history. The full research was published in a thread on X.
Bitfinex promoted its margin-pair lineup, which spans more than 60 pairs including BTC and ETH margin against euros, pounds, and tokenised gold, with zero trading fees. The post highlights trading in a currency traders already hold and points to the Bitfinex Playbook for detail.
Bitfinex released Change Log: Version 1.140, the latest routine update to its trading platform, following version 1.139. The release adds 10 selectable notification sounds, average price on the Movements page, the option to revoke expired API keys, and partial-match search on landing page tickers, plus updated OTC text and links.
Bitcoin Core 32.1 has been released, with Bitfinex crediting the contributors and the Bitcoin Core team. Fee estimates now combine the existing block-policy estimator with a new mempool-based fee rate estimator (used by estimatesmartfee), and the transaction index was rebuilt to take under half the previous space. The release also carries bug fixes and performance improvements; 32.0 was tagged but never fully announced, making 32.1 the first released version of the 32.x series.
Bitfinex noted that Nasdaq and Cboe are set to trade nearly 23 hours a day starting in December, leaving weekends as the one window tokenized stocks have to themselves. The exchange framed the move toward near-continuous traditional market hours as narrowing the distinct trading window for tokenized equities.
Bitfinex highlighted LayerTree, an open research proposal that lets many users share a single Bitcoin output, with individual balances tracked off-chain in a tree and each user able to exit independently in one transaction. The exchange noted it has supported Lightning since the beginning and credited the team behind the research.
Bitfinex Securities opened capital raises for its first tokenized fund products, tokenized with Hadron by Tether — CMCC Global's Crest Fund and Liberty Bitcoin Accumulation Fund (LBAF). Bitfinex framed the offerings as the first tokenized funds of funds issued under El Salvador's digital asset framework, with secondary trading expected after the raises close.
Bitfinex highlighted a new DTCC service built around the reality that tokenising securities does not make them liquid — investors still need a counterparty and a way back to cash. The exchange noted that issuing a token is the easy part, framing the DTCC offering as addressing settlement and redemption.
No further details on the service's launch date or scope were provided in the post.
Bitfinex highlighted a new update to Kaleidoswap's browser extension that adds support for running your own Lightning node, Arkade-to-Lightning swaps, and RGB Hub asset access for dApps. Kaleidoswap is a trustless Bitcoin DEX built on Lightning, and the extension now acts as a wallet spanning multiple Bitcoin layers from a single interface.
window.rgb provider.The tweet frames the release as part of the broader Bitcoin ecosystem's growth, with Ark Labs and the Arkade OS tooling involved in the Ark side of the integration.
Bitfinex Securities opened capital raises for CMCC Global's Crest Fund and Liberty Bitcoin Accumulation Fund — its first tokenized fund products — issued via Tether's Hadron platform under El Salvador's digital asset framework.
Bitfinex announced the immediate and permanent elimination of all maker and taker trading fees across its platform, covering spot, margin, derivatives, tokenized securities, and OTC trading.
Bitfinex Securities became the first international digital asset platform approved under El Salvador's Digital Assets Issuance Law, receiving the country's first-ever Digital Asset Service Provider license from the National Digital Asset Commission.
U.S. authorities seized more than 94,000 bitcoin (valued at over $3.6 billion) tied to the 2016 Bitfinex hack after decrypting files belonging to Ilya Lichtenstein, who was charged along with Heather Morgan with conspiracy to launder the stolen cryptocurrency.
Bitfinex and Tether agreed to pay an $18.5 million fine to settle the New York Attorney General's charges of commingling client and corporate funds to cover up the missing $850 million, without admitting wrongdoing, and to cease trading with New York residents.
Bitfinex/iFinex launched the UNUS SED LEO (LEO) utility token via an initial exchange offering, raising $1 billion by selling 1 billion tokens at $1 each; tokens were issued on both Ethereum (ERC-20) and EOS.
The New York Attorney General obtained a court order alleging Bitfinex and Tether covered up the apparent loss of about $850 million of co-mingled client and corporate funds, and that iFinex took funds from Tether's reserves without disclosure.
Bitfinex suffered a security breach in which roughly 119,756 bitcoins, worth about $72 million at the time, were stolen via more than 2,000 unauthorized transactions; customer balances were cut by 36% and BFX tokens issued to compensate losses.
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission ordered Bitfinex to pay a $75,000 fine for offering illegal off-exchange financed retail commodity transactions and for failing to register as a Futures Commission Merchant.
In May 2015 the exchange was hacked, resulting in the loss of 1,500 bitcoins, worth about $400,000 of customers' assets.
Bitfinex was founded in December 2012 as a P2P bitcoin exchange, launched by Paris IT technician Raphael Nicolle following his earlier Bitcoinica project; it was one of the first professional platforms built for cryptocurrency trading.
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