Leading crypto asset exchange Binance was forced to append its spot and margin trading services but a few minutes after its CEO took to Twitter to boast the platform had smoothly handled new record highs for website traffic.

Binance chief executive Changpeng Zhao, or CZ, tweeted the exchange had experienced a new all-time loftier for traffic on Feb.10, stating the platform had "handled the load" of a sixty% increase in traffic on peak of the previous day'southward tape traffic.

CZ also noted that new user sign-ups had tagged record highs: "New account registrations are all the same open, not sure for how long."

CZ'southward now-deleted Feb. eleven tweet

The tweet has since been deleted, with Binance publishing a "notice of temporary organization maintenance" roughly xxx minutes later. The exchange returned to normal operations roughly ane 60 minutes after the discover was issued.

Only futures trading was able to continue operating as usual, with the exchange announcing it had "suspended deposits, withdrawals, spot and margin trading, P2P trading, OTC Portal trading, savings & redemption, equally well as asset transfers from sub-accounts, margin accounts, futures accounts, and fiat wallets."

CZ issued a follow-up tweet lamenting his original postal service subsequently Binance's maintenance notice had been published:

According to website analytics team SimilarWeb, Binance was the 381st about-pop website worldwide during January, ranking third amid websites featured in SimilarWeb's "Finance > Investing" category.

Traffic from Turkey doubled during January to represent the unmarried-largest geographical source of traffic for Binance, with Turkish users representing 6.89% of Binance's 136 million monthly visitors. Russia ranked the second-largest source of traffic with half-dozen.53%, followed past the U.S. with five.eleven%, the U.K. with 4.70%, and France with 3.50%.