Case Study: Bitfinex achieves high-performance, highly available trading and robust security with Cloudflare Load Balancing

Bitfinex Ensures Their High Frequency Trading Platform Is As Fast As Possible With Cloudflare's Load Balancing

Bitfinex is one of the world’s largest and most advanced cryptocurrency trading platforms, handling hundreds of millions in monthly transaction volume (about $735M in a 30-day period). As a high-frequency trading service it needed both extreme speed—its distributed front-end servers were occasionally overwhelmed by traffic spikes, causing degraded performance—and robust security without unpredictable pricing from prior providers.

Bitfinex adopted Cloudflare’s Load Balancing to intelligently distribute traffic and provide seamless failover, and added Cloudflare’s WAF and DDoS mitigation for comprehensive protection. The result: a faster, highly available front-end with improved capacity and uptime, enterprise-grade security for users, and reduced operational overhead and risk.

Bitfinex

Adam Chamely

Developer