12 August, 2026 The Bitfinex Change Log is an overview of all performance and UI changes made to the Bitfinex trading platform. For an overview of all previous changes, please refer to blog.bitfinex.com/category/changelogs. Version 1.136 Improvements Added hotkeys modifier key setting Added “learn more” links for margin lending and margin trading on the features page
XRP traded at $1.02 today. At that level, the token was approximately -70% below its 2025 peak near $3.50. A return to $3 in 2026 for Ripple would therefore depend on a recovery in price momentum as well as the institutional and regulatory factors that underpin the more bullish forecasts. Worryingly, the past three sessions
The latest issue started with a bad internet route from Teraswitch’s Miami facility that then spread to data centers across Europe and Asia, cutting off validators in London, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Singapore and Tokyo. North America stayed online. The company fixed the issue in about 10 minutes, and traffic was flowing again by 4:16 a.m. UTC.
Strategy’s U.S. dollar reserve has reached $4.65 billion, up from $3.75 billion two weeks earlier. It has also sold almost 7,000 BTC since late June 2026. Many are wondering why a company built around accumulating Bitcoin would choose to hold billions of dollars in fiat. More importantly, should other Bitcoin businesses do the same? Strategy
Riot’s $9.1B Anthropic deal shifts power from Bitcoin mining to AI workloads. Riot allocates 191 MW in Texas, fully online for AI compute by June 2028. Two 5-year lease extensions could boost total contract value to $16.1B. Riot Platforms has signed a massive 20-year, $9.1 billion hosting deal with artificial intelligence leader Anthropic. As a
What the data confirmed In last week’s Bitfinex Alpha Intelligence Update, The Floor That Broke, we highlighted the ‘air gap’ present below $72,000, a thin band of realised-price distribution that offered no historical support, and which has become the key market feature behind BTC’s current velocity. That gap has now closed in full. As BTC
The House of Representatives passed a stopgap funding bill on July 21 by a 220-205 vote, pushing the government’s spending deadline from September 30 to December 4 and pulling it clear of this fall’s midterm elections, sparking a frenzy of Government shutdown probability conversations. The move triggered an immediate repricing in prediction markets tracking a
Bitcoin BTC$64,014.33 barely budged on Tuesday, extending a five-week standstill as steady demand from exchange-traded funds ran into selling from miners and corporate holders. BTC slipped to around $63,500, down 0.6% over the past 24 hours. More importantly, the largest cryptocurrency remained trapped in the roughly $62,000-$66,000 range that has contained prices for much of
The long-awaited crypto Clarity Act has stalled and is due a September vote but regulators are ready to step in to advance crypto rules regardless, according to reports. Bloomberg reported Tuesday that the Securities and Exchange Commission was preparing to roll out this week initiatives to help the crypto industry. The regulator has said that
Robinhood launched crypto trading in the UK, offering over 50 digital assets. The token lineup includes major cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and XRP. Users can manage crypto alongside stocks, ISAs, and options in one unified app. Robinhood has officially opened up crypto trading for eligible retail and institutional investors in the UK. The Robinhood XRP
