We are pleased to announce that Bitfinex is supporting the Ethereum Proof-of-Work fork. Customers with an Ethereum balance in their Bitfinex account at the time of the Merge snapshot will have received forked Ethereum Proof-of-Work tokens. Customers have been credited ETHW, and the ETHW:USD market will be open as of 15th of September at 9:15 PM UTC for trading. Deposits and withdrawals will commence for ETHW in the coming days. We shall update you accordingly. Financed positions. As explained in a previous post, the following scenarios will apply for users who engage in peer-to-peer financing activities using ETH on the Bitfinex platform. Customers with Margin short ETH positions will be debited an equivalent amount of the forked token from their margin wallet..Customers with Margin long ETH positions will be credited an equivalent amount of the forked token to their margin wallet. .Customers who are lending their ETH will be credited an equivalent amount of the forked token to their wallet balance. Customers will have until October 15 2022 to settle their negative balances. A failure to timely settle negative balances may result in Bitfinex settling those balances at the prevailing market rates, as determined by Bitfinex in its sole discretion. You can find more information relating to EthereumPoW at https://ethereumpow.org.