Binance has resumed its futures trading following a brief outage caused by a system issue with its Unified Margin (UM) product. The outage, which left many traders unable to manage their positions, significantly impacted the derivatives market. Binance, the largest crypto exchange by volume, confirmed that the issue affecting Futures UM trading had been resolved, restoring full operational capacity. This shutdown, which is more impactful than standard product outages due to the nature of UM enabling users to pool margin assets, raised concerns across the derivatives market. Binance has experienced similar outages in the past, typically associated with technical bottlenecks during periods of high market volatility, which have lasted from less than an hour to several hours.

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