Leading cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced on October 17th to be exact that it plans wallet maintenance for the Ethereum network within the next 24 hours.
Binance has announced that it will perform wallet maintenance on the Ethereum Network (ETH) on October 17th at 6:00 am (UTC), which will take approximately one hour. To support wallet maintenance, deposits and withdrawals on the Ethereum Network (ETH) will be paused starting October 17th at 5:55 AM UTC and will resume once maintenance is complete.
Deposits and withdrawals have been suspended, so trading of tokens on the network is not affected.
Token deposits and withdrawals on the Ethereum network will resume once the network is deemed stable. However, no further announcements will be published.
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