XBT Contracts and Bitfinex Downtime

Traders, During yesterday's Bitfinex downtime, BitMEX and Kaiko decided to declare a Market Disruption Event (MDE) and remove Bitfinex from the Kaiko index until further notice. At the time of writing, BItfinex is back up & running and appears stable. In case of further downtime, we are making the following announcement:If Bitfinex continues to be stable, we will add it back to the Kaiko BitMEX Index at 12:00 UTC June 22, 2016.In this case, "stable" is defined as less than 5 minute of recorded downtime from BitMEX and Kaiko servers. This affects the XBT and LTC series, which is the following products:

• XBTUSD

• XBTM16

• XBTU16

• LTCXBT

We'll continue to keep an eye on Bitfinex's stability throughout and will be announcing a new automated policy to handle this downtime in the future.