
BitMEX Shuts Off Trading After 11 Years, Withdrawals Stay Open
Trading and deposits stopped at 04:00 UTC on Wednesday. Withdrawals remain open, and balances left behind start paying an account fee.
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Trading and deposits stopped at 04:00 UTC on Wednesday. Withdrawals remain open, and balances left behind start paying an account fee.

Open interest on the perpetuals venue reached $18 billion on Wednesday, four days after a $16.36 billion record. Markets with no crypto in them are doing much of the growing.

CME Group will add standard and micro futures on Bitcoin Cash and Uniswap's UNI on 19 October, pending regulatory review.

Bitcoin traded above $85,000 on 21 September for the first time since late January. More than $750 million in leveraged positions were liquidated, most of them short bets, as the price climbed.

The filing covers roughly 50 to 60 contracts on stocks including Apple and Nvidia. No launch date is published and no account carries the full list.

The London infrastructure firm says a flaw exposed an access token. Read-only exchange keys and trading data went out, and no loss figure has been published.

Bitcoin closed back above $80,000 on Friday and ether cleared $2,550, with about $130 billion added to the total crypto market capitalization in a day. A short squeeze did much of the work, and the tallies for it do not agree.

A wallet that took in 10,000 BTC for $7,805 in April 2011 emptied itself in July 2025, when those coins were worth about $1.09 billion. The buy and the exit sit in the same address history, fourteen years and roughly 140,000 times the price apart.

Prosecutors in Manhattan say the pair traded perpetual futures on tokens Robinhood was about to list. Each allegedly cleared more than $50,000.

Haipo Yang said the security and compliance risks had become hard to contain. Spot trading stops on 29 September and the withdrawal window shuts on 22 December.

Vlad Tenev said in-kind redemption and voting are coming for Stock Tokens. No date was given, and the product disclosure still denies holders any ownership.

Four sessions of net redemptions drained the US spot bitcoin funds while ether funds took in $216 million. The weekly totals published since do not agree.