BitMEX closes 23 September.
Your balance shouldn't pay rent while you decide.
After eleven years, BitMEX is sunsetting: trading ends 25 August, positions go reduce-only from 26 August 04:00 UTC, and anything left un-withdrawn after closure is charged $50/month or 1% annually — whichever is higher. EventTrader gives displaced traders a place to land: instant crypto deposits, zero custody fees, and every withdrawal settled on-chain with a tx hash you can verify yourself.
Zero custody fees, ever
We never charge your balance for existing. No monthly holding fee, no percentage skim on idle funds, no deadline after which your own money starts costing you. Deposit, trade when you want, withdraw when you want.
Move in minutes
Deposit BTC, ETH, USDC, USDT, SOL and more across eight chains — Ethereum, Base, BSC, Polygon, Arbitrum, Avalanche, Optimism, Solana. Deposits are detected and credited automatically; no support ticket, no manual review queue.
Withdrawals you can verify
Every withdrawal settles on-chain and hands you the transaction hash. Not a promise, not a pending queue with "compliance review" — a public record you can check on any block explorer.
The full BitMEX wind-down, in order
| Date (UTC) | What happens | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| through 25 Aug | Normal trading continues. | Close positions on your terms while both sides of the book are still live. |
| 26 Aug, 04:00 | Risk limits force reduce-only — no new positions. | Anything still open can only be shrunk. Liquidity thins from here. |
| 26 Aug → 23 Sep | BitMEX progressively force-closes open positions. | Exit before you're exited — forced unwinds don't wait for your price. |
| 23 Sep, 04:00 | Closure. Remaining positions force-closed; services end. | Withdrawals remain available after closure — but see the next row. |
| after 23 Sep | Un-withdrawn verified-account balances are charged $50/month or 1% annually, whichever is higher, collected monthly. | Withdraw everything before closure. Idle funds actively shrink after this date. |
Dates and fees from BitMEX's official closure notice (23 July 2026). Verify against their announcement — don't take our word for it either.
What you'd actually be trading here
EventTrader is a prediction exchange, not a BitMEX clone. Instead of leveraged swaps, you get directional markets without margin calls: perpetual prediction markets on crypto and macro moves with no expiry to roll, live central-limit order books with price-time priority, event markets on real-world outcomes, and a marketplace of trading bots you can clone instead of coding. Your risk is capped at what you put in a position — there is no liquidation engine hunting your stop.
- Free means free. No card required. Nothing auto-converts into a paid plan.
- We are not BitMEX. No leveraged perpetual swaps, no 100x. If that's what you need, we're not your venue — the table above still helps you leave safely.
- No predictions sold. Markets are markets; we make no performance claims.
- Leave in one click. Withdraw on-chain any time — that's the whole point.