WALLET WATCH · CONFIRMED · BITFINEX

Bitfinex cold wallet — confirmed, by the exchange itself.

One of the largest cold wallets in bitcoin, and rare in the best way: the exchange publishes its own address list, making this a confirmed label — the gold standard of attribution.

UPDATED 2026-08-09 STATUS WATCHED LIVE

BALANCE · LIVE 130,010 BTC
VALUE $8,477,567,223
WATCH RULE Moves ≥ 500 BTC
ADDRESS bc1qgdjqv0av3q56jvd82tkdjpy7gdp9ut8tlqmgrpmv24sq90ecnvqqjwvw97

Why "confirmed" matters here

Most wallet labels in bitcoin are educated inference. This one isn't: Bitfinex maintains a public wallet list in its own GitHub repository, and this address is on it. That self-publication is what lets us grade the label CONFIRMED instead of "attributed" — the distinction our entire verification methodology is built around.

Transparency has history here: after its 2016 hack, Bitfinex became one of the more radically public exchanges about its on-chain footprint. Publishing cold wallet addresses lets anyone — including us, including you — audit reserves in real time.

How we watch it

Same discipline as every exchange wallet: moves of 500 BTC or more trigger an alert with the transaction linked. Cold wallets move for operational reasons most of the time — the alert gives you the evidence, not a conclusion.