Bitfinex Securities has listed five tokenised notes backed by bitcoin treasury companies, giving on-chain investors exposure to firms that hold bitcoin on their balance sheets. The lineup follows earlier offerings for Strategy, Strategy's STRC, and Metaplanet, with H100 Group among the companies referenced as the platform broadens its tokenisation of conventional equity-style products.
Bitfinex published Change Log v1.137, detailing the latest performance and UI changes to its trading platform. The update follows the exchange's ongoing release cadence documented in its changelog archive, though specific feature details were not included in the available announcement.
In its latest 8-K filing with the SEC, Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) reported that its at-the-market equity program generated $0 in new share sales during the week of March 17–23. The disclosure suggests the company has paused its share-selling program for the first time since it began using ATM issuances to fund bitcoin purchases.
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The filing stops a buying streak that had been a notable source of institutional demand for bitcoin, and the market is watching whether the pause is temporary or a strategic shift. (Bitfinex blog)
A draft Ethereum proposal, EIP-8363, would burn a portion of validator rewards as the staked ETH supply grows — ultimately driving new staking rewards to zero. Its authors argue the network overpays for security it already has and that a formally agreed reference rate is needed.
Bitfinex released Change Log Version 1.136, an overview of performance and UI changes to its trading platform. Earlier platform changes are tracked in the blog's changelog category.
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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