Share of Coin OI = open interest of the coin on Bitfinex ÷ the coin’s open interest across all tracked exchanges. Funding is shown per settlement period (8h unless marked). Open interest summed across the 2 listed coins is $792.25M vs $791.65M for the exchange.
Current funding rate per settlement period on Bitfinex, ranked across 2 coins with at least $1M open interest on the exchange. Positive = longs pay shorts. Sort the table above by Funding for the full list, or see the funding rate heatmap for every exchange.
Bitfinex accounted for 0.0% of all futures liquidations across 18 tracked exchanges in the last 24 hours. Long and short liquidations were roughly balanced.
Buy volume $11.08M vs sell volume $12.26M across 2 coins on Bitfinex over the last 24 hours. A ratio above 1 means more taker buying than selling.
Bitfinex is one of the oldest cryptocurrency exchanges, founded in 2012 and operated by the Hong Kong-based company iFinex Inc. Tether (USDT), the largest stablecoin by market cap, is also owned by iFinex Inc. The centralized exchange (CEX) platform was designed for professional traders and institutions, with support for both fiat and crypto. The exchange is considered one of the most liquid for BTC pairs and other major altcoins like ETH and XMR. To protect user assets, the platform offers both two-factor authentication and IP address monitoring.
The exchange focuses on professional traders and investors with experience, offering platform users the ability to engage in margin lending, margin funding, paired trading, over-the-counter (OTC) trading and more. Besides spot and margin trading, Bitfinex also offers various other products, such as: Bitfinex Borrow, Bitfinex Pay, Bitfinex Pulse, Affiliate Program, API and its native utility token — UNUS SED LEO, amongst others.
Bitfinex was co-founded in 2012 by Raphael Nicolle and Giancarlo Devasini.
Nicolle started his career as an IT technician and worked as a system administrator at Gutenberg Networks. Afterwards, he focused on the Bitcoin ecosystem and started developing Bitfinex based on the Bitcoinica trading platform code.
Devasini is the serving CFO. He graduated from Milan University as a Doctor of Medicine but developed a passion for technology and entered the computer hardware business. He founded Point-G Srl and then Solo SpA. In 2012, Devasini met Raphael Nicolle and joined Bitfinex, running its trading and risk management operations.
The company is registered in the British Virgin Islands and based in Hong Kong.
Bitfinex restricts access to Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Crimea, Donetsk People's Republic and the self-proclaimed Luhansk People's Republic. U.S. citizens, citizens or residents of Canada, the British Virgin Islands, the Government of Venezuela and residents of Austria or Italy are also prohibited from accessing the exchange.
Bitfinex supports a wide array of trading pairs and 270+ cryptocurrencies, among them: BTC, ETH, USDT, SOL, LTC, XRP, EOS and many other options.
Bitfinex offers zero-fee trading across spot, margin, derivatives, securities, and OTC. No tiers, no volume thresholds.
Visit bitfinex.com/fees for the full schedule.
On the platform, qualified users (basic plus verification level and above) have the option to trade up to 10X leverage, receiving funds through its peer-to-peer (P2P) margin funding platform.
The history chart shows how the exchange's open interest, volume and liquidations moved over the last day to a year, with its share of the whole market on the right axis. The coins table lists every market on the exchange with the share of each coin's global open interest that sits here — a quick read on which markets this venue dominates.
All figures are aggregated from the coins Coinfuty tracks, so the totals match the Bitfinex row on the exchanges page and the per-exchange breakdown on every coin page.
All numbers are aggregated across the coins Coinfuty tracks, so they match the Bitfinex row on the exchanges page and the per-exchange breakdown on every coin page; exchange-wide figures published by Bitfinex itself may be larger. Fees, pair counts and visits come from the exchange’s public listing and are refreshed periodically.
Bitfinex currently carries $791.65M in perpetual futures open interest (+1.12% over the past 24 hours), which is 0.7% of open interest across the 18 exchanges Coinfuty tracks and ranks it #16.
Perpetual futures on Bitfinex traded $23.11M in the last 24 hours (+84.21% versus the previous 24 hours), a 0.0% share of tracked futures volume and rank #17 by volume.
$0.00 of positions were force-closed on Bitfinex over the past 24 hours — $0.00 in longs and $0.00 in shorts, so longs took the bigger hit; that is 0.0% of all liquidations across tracked exchanges.
Bitcoin (BTC) leads Bitfinex with $764.39M of open interest, about 1.9% of all BTC open interest across tracked exchanges, followed by ETH at $27.86M.
At the base tier Bitfinex charges -0.02% maker and 0.075% taker on perpetual futures. Spot trading is 0% maker / 0% taker. Fees fall with volume tiers and any token or referral discounts, so check the exchange for your own tier.
Bitfinex is a centralized exchange (CEX): it custodies user funds and matches orders off-chain. It ranks #16 by futures open interest among the 18 exchanges Coinfuty tracks.
