Cryptocurrency exchange FTX experienced a period of downtime during the August Consumer Price Index (CPI) print, prompting a flurry of frustration from traders.
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried confirmed that the exchange faced issues, stating that the “website did wonky auto-refreshing for a lot of people.”
Traders on Twitter reported that the FTX interface was intermittently freezing at 12:30 UTC. Bankman-Fried responded and said that the issue had been fixed as of 13:25 UTC.
The price of bitcoin slumped from $22,700 to $21,400 after the CPI print as inflation rose by 8.3% in August from a year earlier, exceeding expectations of 8.1%.
The volatility caused more than $110 million in liquidations in a one-hour period across crypto derivatives exchanges, according to CoinGlass.
