- Bitget confirmed that Bitcoin-network withdrawals went live at 08:00 UTC on September 28, 2026, the first step in the phased withdrawal restart it had published two days earlier
- Bitget said withdrawals began “as scheduled,” the first concrete confirmation that the published restart timetable was being executed rather than only announced
- The exchange’s own published schedule lists Ethereum, BSC, Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism network withdrawals as the next phase, set to resume at 08:00 UTC on September 29
Bitget confirmed in an official post on X at 08:34 UTC on September 28, 2026 that Bitcoin-network withdrawals had gone live at 08:00 UTC that morning “as scheduled,” the first network to reopen under the phased withdrawal restart the exchange had published two days earlier following its security incident. This update follows Bitget’s initial restart schedule, which set Bitcoin as the first network to resume.
The confirmation is a direct, verifiable follow-through on the timetable Bitget had committed to, giving users and the market concrete evidence that Bitcoin withdrawals specifically had resumed rather than only remaining a stated intention. Bitget’s support center article laying out the full restart schedule remains the exchange’s authoritative reference for which networks are live at any given time.
According to that published schedule, Ethereum-network withdrawals are next, alongside BSC, Arbitrum, Base, and Optimism withdrawals, all set to resume together at 08:00 UTC on September 29. USDT withdrawals are scheduled to follow on September 30, with remaining assets and networks reopening on October 2, completing the full restart roughly eight days after the incident was first disclosed.
Bitget said withdrawal availability for each network is reflected directly on the platform as it goes live, giving users a real-time way to confirm access to their funds network by network rather than relying solely on the exchange’s own announcements. The exchange has maintained that the vulnerability behind the incident has been identified and remediated, with its security and technical teams conducting additional validation before each subsequent network is reopened.
The phased approach, rather than reopening all withdrawals simultaneously, gives Bitget’s team the ability to monitor each network individually for unusual activity as it comes back online, a more conservative sequencing than a single full restart that reduces the risk of a second incident occurring while the exchange is still validating its systems following the original breach.
Exchanges recovering from a major security incident have increasingly favored this kind of staged, network-by-network restart over an immediate full reopening, since it lets a security team isolate and address any remaining issues on a single blockchain without having to halt every withdrawal pathway again if something unexpected turns up once real user traffic resumes.
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