Bitget Introduces Market Integrity and Token Accountability Framework

Victoria, Seychelles, May 20, 2026 — Bitget, the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has introduced a market framework aimed at strengthening oversight across listed assets, project teams, and market makers. The framework improvises post-listing surveillance, tightens project-side obligations, and accelerates action when abnormal trading behavior or suspicious wallet activity is identified.

It creates clearer accountability for listed projects and market makers, ensuring they operate responsibly, cooperate during risk reviews, and avoid conduct that could mislead users or disrupt market fairness.

Project and Market-Maker Accountability

Under the framework, newly listed projects remain subject to contractual obligations that prohibit price manipulation, artificial volatility, abusive liquidity practices, and conduct that may damage market integrity. Where violations are identified, action may be taken under applicable platform rules and legal agreements.

These measures may include applying or maintaining Special Treatment labels, displaying high-risk warnings, restricting token visibility, suspending deposits or withdrawals, freezing accounts suspected of manipulation, pausing trading pairs, revoking market-maker status, banning related projects, or proceeding with delisting where necessary.

Stronger Spot Risk Analysis

Spot trading risk analysis is being strengthened through a more structured asset review model. The system evaluates listed tokens across on-chain activity, technical fundamentals, community sentiment, and liquidity conditions, creating a traceable scoring structure that supports post-listing monitoring.

The model is designed to help identify contract-level concerns, abnormal wallet behavior, high holder concentration, weak liquidity, order-book imbalance, negative sentiment, and sudden deterioration in asset health.

Faster Escalation and User Warnings

When abnormal activity is detected, reviews will be escalated across project teams, market makers, wallet flows, and trading behavior. Promotional activity may also be paused for tokens under review where continued marketing could expose users to heightened risk.

The objective is to ensure that warnings and platform-side actions appear earlier, especially when a listed asset shows signs of deterioration or potential misconduct.

Regulatory Reporting and Industry Coordination

Following internal investigation, suspected project abuse, insider dumping, market-maker misconduct, wash trading, or other forms of market manipulation may be reported to relevant authorities in jurisdictions where the platform operates or is registered.

The framework also supports wider industry coordination among major exchanges to share verified market-abuse cases and reduce repeat misconduct across platforms.

Bitget will continue strengthening asset review, post-listing surveillance, and enforcement procedures so users can trade in an environment where listed projects, market makers, and the platform itself are held to higher standards.

Read the full announcement here.

About Bitget

Bitget is the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), serving over 125 million users and offering access to over 2M crypto tokens, 100+ tokenized stocks, ETFs, commodities, FX, and precious metals such as gold. The ecosystem is committed to helping users trade smarter with its AI agent, which co-pilots trade execution. Bitget is driving crypto adoption through strategic partnerships with LALIGA and MotoGP™. Aligned with its global impact strategy, Bitget has joined hands with UNICEF to support blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027. Bitget currently leads in the tokenized TradFi market, providing the industry's lowest fees and highest liquidity across 150 regions worldwide.

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