MEXC said it reduced AXSUSDT futures maximum leverage at Jan 26, 2026 10:25 (UTC), cutting Futures Trade from 125x to 50x and Copy Trade from 75x to 50x, per an exchange notice on MEXC announcements.
Sudden leverage caps tend to read like internal risk controls responding to crowding or volatility risk, even before price makes a large move. In practice, the immediate stress point is not new positions but existing ones: accounts that were effectively running above the new cap may need to adjust position size, margin, or leverage settings quickly to stay within the updated limit.
MEXC’s leverage-adjustment notices across other pairs often include operational notes about order handling, such as positions remaining closeable while adds are restricted, and limit orders potentially behaving differently for new submissions versus existing ones. That detail matters for bots and active traders because it can create a brief window where old orders still interact with the book while new orders are constrained.
MEXC also adjusted AXSUSDT funding settlement frequency effective Jan 26, 2026 07:45 (UTC), shifting it to once every four hours, according to the exchange’s futures update feed where the AXSUSDT notice lists example settlement timestamps starting at 08:00 (UTC).
Funding cadence changes can reprice short-term carry fast. Fewer settlement events usually mean fewer, larger discrete funding moments, which can alter how quickly costs accrue for crowded positions and when traders choose to de-risk. The first two to three settlement cycles after a cadence shift tend to be the most revealing because they show whether the market is leaning one-sided and how quickly basis and funding respond.
In a separate notice, MEXC said Copy Trade now supports PENGUINUSDT and SPACEUSDT USDT-M perpetual futures, each with a 20x maximum leverage in Copy Trade.
Copy-trade enablement often pulls retail flow into tickers that are already warm on social timelines, and it can change microstructure quickly. Early sessions can see wider dispersion between top leaders and followers, more aggressive use of leverage at the follower level, and sharper funding swings if positioning crowds in one direction.
For SPACEUSDT, the practical question is whether this symbol matches the same SPACE that is being promoted across other venues in the same session. If it does, cross-platform attention can accelerate, and funding, spread, and liquidation dynamics tend to tighten around the first major volatility burst.
Taken together, the AXSUSDT leverage cut and the four-hour funding schedule look like a deliberate risk tightening on a single contract while still expanding retail-access distribution rails through Copy Trade.
That combination can produce two common outcomes in the next day:
MEXC’s Jan 26 updates tighten AXSUSDT risk parameters from two angles, lowering max leverage to 50x and moving funding settlement to a four-hour cadence. At the same time, the exchange is broadening Copy Trade availability by adding PENGUINUSDT and SPACEUSDT perps with 20x copy leverage. The next market signal is whether other venues mirror AXS margin adjustments and whether early Copy Trade flow creates funding and spread pressure on the newly enabled tickers.
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