Context before attribution.
This event affected multiple digital assets or market participants and is necessary context before attributing an XRP move to XRP-specific news.
Protocol exploit/hack
Bitfinex hack
Attackers stole nearly 120,000 bitcoin from Bitfinex, creating an exchange-security shock.
- Verified UTC window
- August 2, 2016
- Direction recorded
- negative
- Contagion scope
- crypto-market
- Affected assets
- BTC · ETH · XRP · TOTAL-CRYPTO
Measure the window; do not invent a cause.
XRP observations are compared with the total digital-asset market over the same completed UTC dates. The comparison describes relative performance; it does not establish a single cause.
−20 / +20 DAYS · COMPLETED UTC
Focused XRP market study
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Returns describe coincident market behavior around a documented event. They do not prove that the event caused the move or exclude other XRP-specific, crypto-market, or macro factors.