At 03:00 UTC on Monday, August 17, 2026, every spot trading pair for six tokens disappears from Binance. The assets affected are Across Protocol (ACX), Hashflow (HFT), PIVX, Vulcan Forged (PYR), Vanar (VANRY) and Viction (VIC). If one of them sits in your Binance account, that is the moment you lose the ability to sell it there. After that, only a limited window remains to get it off the exchange at all.
Binance set out the move in its own announcement, naming three points in time that follow one another and mean different things. Confuse them and you miss either the sale or the access to your own balance. This article sorts the dates and shows which checks are still worth running before Monday.
The announcement names six assets that will be pulled from spot trading in full. Individual trading pairs are not the unit here; all pairs for a token go at once. In the wording of the notice, "all spot trading pairs for the following token(s)" will be removed:
A delisting does not mean a project ceases to exist. The tokens keep running on their networks, and some of them trade on other venues. What ends is tradability at this exchange. That still matters, because for smaller assets a large share of trading volume often pools on Binance. Once that venue falls away, the remainder spreads across thinner markets, and the spread between bid and ask usually widens.
If you hold one of the six tokens, answer two questions separately: whether you want to keep the position, and where you will custody it from August 17. The second question applies even if you have no intention of selling.
The announcement staggers three dates across two months. Binance works in UTC; Germany is currently on summer time, which is UTC plus two hours.
| What happens | Time (UTC) | German time (CEST) |
|---|---|---|
| All spot trading pairs are removed | August 17, 2026, 03:00 | August 17, 2026, 05:00 |
| Deposits are no longer credited | August 18, 2026, 03:00 | August 18, 2026, 05:00 |
| Withdrawals are no longer supported | October 17, 2026, 03:00 | October 17, 2026, 05:00 |
The first date is the hard one: from early Monday you can neither buy nor sell the six tokens on Binance. The second concerns incoming transfers. Anyone sending one of these tokens to their Binance address after August 18 has to expect the credit to fail; the notice states that deposits will thereafter "not be credited to users' accounts". Moving coins to Binance is no longer a good idea, even though trading there formally runs until Monday.
The third date is the one most often underestimated, because it sits two months out. Until October 17, 2026, 03:00 UTC, you can withdraw the tokens from Binance. After that, the exchange says withdrawals will no longer be supported, and no regular route to the balance remains.
Open spot orders on the affected pairs are deleted automatically when the pairs are removed, according to crypto.news. A sell order you placed well above the current price simply vanishes, without protecting you and without triggering a sale. If you are relying on an open order, check before the weekend whether it can realistically be filled.
The spot delisting is the last step of a wind-down that began a good week ago. According to the timeline from crypto.news, Binance first closed the peripheral products on August 7: Pool and Pay at 03:00 UTC, flexible loans and VIP loans at 07:00, margin positions at 10:00. For the futures, the sources differ. crypto.news dates the block on new positions to August 7 at 08:30 UTC and the automatic settlement to 09:00, while The Cryptonomist puts the completion at August 8, 09:00 UTC. The range therefore covers August 7 and 8; both accounts agree that the futures were settled ahead of spot trading. Spot copy trading ended on August 10 in both accounts.
That sequence is typical of an orderly delisting. Anyone holding a leveraged position gave up the decision long ago, because settlement happened automatically. For spot holdings it stays with you until early Monday.
Binance gives no per-token reason in the announcement. The exchange points to its general review framework, which by its own account covers liquidity, development activity, network security, team conduct, transparency, tokenomics and regulatory change. Which of these points tipped the balance for which token is not disclosed. A collective justification supports no verdict on any single project.
There was, however, a publicly visible run-up. Binance flags tokens under heightened observation with a so-called monitoring tag. Cryptobriefing puts that tag at May 22, 2026 for HFT, July 3 for PYR and VANRY, and July 24 for ACX; by the same account, PYR lost around 11 percent of its value after the July 3 tag. If you hold positions in smaller tokens, it is worth reading that flag as an early warning in future.
For one of the six assets a more concrete reason is on record. According to The Cryptonomist, the removal of VANRY is connected to Binance not supporting a planned contract migration for the token. That has a practical consequence beyond the delisting: if you withdraw VANRY, check with the project itself before the transfer which contract address will apply in future and whether a later swap will be possible from a self-custody wallet.
There are no more than two options, and they carry different deadlines. The first route is selling on Binance before Monday, 03:00 UTC: convenient, because trade and settlement happen in one place, but with the shortest deadline. The second route is withdrawing to your own wallet or to another venue, and for that you have until October 17.
Which route fits depends less on the price than on what you intend to do with the position. If you want out, there is a lot to be said for selling before Monday, since otherwise you will have to find another venue. If you want to keep the token, moving it to an address of your own is the calmer solution.
In the second case, check where you are sending it first. A withdrawal to an exchange that has also dropped the same token ends in a dead end. If you are switching venues anyway, our comparison of the best regulated crypto exchanges lists the providers that operate under supervision in Germany. What matters most is verifying that the destination service supports exactly this token on exactly this network.
A sale under deadline pressure is the same event for tax purposes as any other sale. In Germany, crypto assets held privately count as other economic goods within the meaning of Section 23 of the Income Tax Act. Sell within a year of acquisition and the gain is a private disposal and taxable. If the purchase is more than a year back, the gain stays tax-free. On top of that, an exemption limit of 1,000 euros applies to the total of all private disposals in a year. That limit is not an allowance: exceed it and the entire gain becomes taxable, not merely the excess.
Two points are regularly overlooked. First, a swap into a stablecoin also counts as a disposal. Turning the position into USDT on Sunday evening to buy time already triggers the taxable event. Second, a plain withdrawal to your own wallet is not a disposal, because you remain the economic owner and only change where the asset is kept. Moving coins out before October 17 triggers no tax in itself.
If your position is under water and the purchase is less than a year old, selling produces a loss from a private disposal. Under Section 23 of the Income Tax Act, such losses can only be offset against gains of the same kind, meaning other private disposals; a carry-back or carry-forward is possible on top of that. They cannot be netted against salary or against investment income from a share portfolio. Anyone who wants to use this needs clean documentation of the acquisition date and acquisition costs. So pull your trade history now, while it is still available at Binance.
If you opt for the withdrawal, almost everything hinges on choosing the right network. Several of the affected tokens exist on more than one chain. The receiving address has to match the network you select for the withdrawal; a transfer on the wrong network is the most common mistake in deadline moves like this one, and it cannot be reversed.
It is also worth looking at the withdrawal fee relative to the size of the position. On small residual holdings it can account for a noticeable share of the value, in which case selling before Monday is often the more economical choice.
Set yourself a reminder for the October date. Two months sit between August 17 and October 17, and the task easily slips your mind, because nothing appears to be happening in the account. That quiet stretch is exactly the trap: the position stays in your portfolio, can no longer be traded, and from October 17 can no longer be withdrawn either.
The Binance case does not stand alone. Kraken has announced an extensive delisting with forced liquidation, which we broke down on August 11 in our analysis of the Kraken delisting; Revolut is dropping USDT on August 31, which for those affected means a forced conversion with tax consequences. Three providers, three procedures, one common denominator: the deadlines are short, and the responsibility sits with the investor.
One important difference concerns who triggers the sale. In a forced liquidation or a forced conversion the exchange decides, and the result counts as a disposal for tax purposes all the same. In the Binance case the decision stays with you, because the tokens remain withdrawable after the delisting. That is the more investor-friendly variant, and for exactly that reason it demands an active step.
(As of August 14, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Prices and fee structures change; check the terms with the provider before you buy.)
