Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, is not working. The website is down and users are reporting that they are unable to log in or trade.
Binance has been down for over an hour now, and there is no word on when it will be back up. This is the second time in the past week that Binance has experienced issues, as the site was down for several hours last week due to “system maintenance.”
It is unclear what is causing the latest outage, but it appears to be affecting all users worldwide. Binance has not yet released a statement on the matter.
This outage comes at a time when the cryptocurrency market is experiencing a major sell-off. Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, is down 7% in the past 24 hours, and all of the top 10 cryptocurrencies are in the red.
The Binance outage will likely add to the panic selling as users will be unable to trade their cryptocurrencies for other assets or cash out to fiat currency. This could lead to a further decline in prices across the market.
We will update this article as more information becomes available.
Update: Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has tweeted that the outage is due to “server maintenance.” He says that trading will resume “in a few hours.”
Update 2: Binance has announced that trading will resume at 11am UTC (6am ET). The company says that all funds are safe and there was no hack.