OKEx Officially Denies Allegations of BTC Price Manipulation

Allegations of market manipulations by cryptocurrency exchanges are piling up with customers of one of many largest crypto trade on the earth – OKEx – accusing the supplier of the identical. However, in a latest public assertion, OKEx denied all accusations made in opposition to it and additional justified its controversial strikes.

“Rumors have been flying on the internet about OKEx intentionally triggering forced liquidations of accounts by manipulating the prices,” the Hong Kong-based trade wrote.

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It notably identified that it has little interest in market manipulation because it doesn't make any earnings from the worth volatility, however slightly from the executed trades.

“…the rollback on Mar 30 was executed because we have the obligation to protect all the affected customers. OKEx provides a platform to allow customers to trade in our order books, but we are not directly involved in the trades. Moreover, all the transaction details are public. We, as a trading platform, do not make profit from the price volatility, but generate income from trading fees. We have not reason to, and have never and will not, manipulate the prices of any of our market,” it detailed.

The controversy

The controversy initiated on 30th March because the trade noticed a large drop in BTC costs, which slumped under $four,800, whereas the general market worth remained regular round $7,00zero. The trade even encountered a steep drop from $6,500 to $four,755 in mere 30 minutes – a drop of just about one p.c per second.

This created a panic among the many purchasers and the trade was flooded with complaints. In order to revive the scenario, OKEx rolled again the futures contract as some folks reportedly aggravated the worth of BTC quarterly futures.

In a press release, OKEx quoted its futures buying and selling consumer settlement: “6.2 OKEx reserves the right to enact control over accounts if malicious price manipulation or any other pernicious wrongdoing occurs. If required, OKEx reserves the right to close accounts, limit trading, halt trading, cancel transactions, and rollback transactions to eliminate any adverse effects in the futures market.”

It introduced that to guard its purchasers’ pursuits, the trade will roll-backed all future transactions to 05:00 March 30th, 2018 (Hong Kong time).

In an in depth word, the trade acknowledged: “to prevent forced-liquidations due to price differences after the settlements in ‘bi-weekly’ and ‘quarterly’ futures contracts, we will rollback the transactions as mentioned, and all futures contracts will be delivered at 00:00 Mar 31st, 2018 (Hong Kong Time). Further announcement will be made if there are any changes in delivery time.”

OKEx additional waived all transaction charges for future buying and selling for per week as a result of inconvenience precipitated to its customers.

Though many welcomed the trade’s transfer, it additionally confronted a large backlash from the cryptocurrency group.

However, regardless of all detrimental press, OKEx’s place available in the market is hardly hampered, as it's nonetheless rating because the fourth largest trade with practically $800 million in day by day buying and selling quantity.