Key Highlights
- Binance will officially cease all spot trading for eight significant tokens on April 1, 2026.
- Following the announcement, the affected assets experienced a sharp “delisting dump,” with some tokens plunging between 15% and 30% within hours.
- While trading ends in early April, Binance will support withdrawals for these assets until June 2026.
Binance announced on March 18, 2026, that it will cease all spot trading for eight digital assets effective April 1. The tokens being removed are Arena-Z (A2Z), Ampleforth Governance Token (FORTH), Hooked Protocol (HOOK), IDEX (IDEX), Loopring (LRC), Neutron (NTRN), Radiant Capital (RDNT), and Solar (SXP).
All open trade orders will be automatically canceled once trading stops. The decision follows the exchange’s periodic review process, which evaluates listed assets against a set of criteria including development activity, trading volume, liquidity, network stability, team commitment, community engagement, regulatory compliance, and any evidence of unethical conduct.
Immediate price impact: Sell-offs across the board
The announcement triggered sharp sell-offs across most of the eight tokens within hours of the news breaking on March 18.
Loopring (LRC) was the hardest hit among the higher-cap names, falling roughly 10% within 24 hours to trade around $0.027, according to CoinMarketCap data. LRC is now down over 99% from its all-time high of $3.75, set in November 2021. Trading volume surged 252% as panicked holders rushed for the exits—a pattern consistent with previous Binance delistings. LRC’s market cap has shrunk to approximately $36.5 million, ranking it outside the top 450 cryptocurrencies.
Solar (SXP) continued its freefall, trading near $0.008 after the announcement. The token had already been bleeding for months following the project’s abrupt halt of all development in March 2025 due to financial control issues and its CEO’s resignation.
Neutron (NTRN) dropped roughly 29% to around $0.006, a painful decline for a project that had been backed by Binance Labs and launched through Binance Launchpool in 2023. Its market cap now sits at just $4.7 million.
Radiant Capital (RDNT) has been on a downward spiral since a $53 million exploit in October 2024 that gutted user trust. OKX delisted the token in January 2026, and Binance’s removal effectively eliminates its last major centralized exchange venue. The token’s price has been in steady decline, with each delisting accelerating the descent.
IDEX, which had been on Binance’s Monitoring Tag since July 2025, also saw renewed selling pressure. The hybrid decentralized exchange token had already shed over 33% in the month before the monitoring tag was applied, and competition from platforms like Uniswap has continued to erode its market position.
Ampleforth Governance Token (FORTH) and Hooked Protocol (HOOK)—both flagged with Monitoring Tags on March 6—were already trading at sub-$1 million daily volumes before the delisting news, making them among the least liquid assets on Binance’s platform. The delisting effectively confirms what their trading activity had already signaled: declining market relevance.
Arena-Z (A2Z), the least recognized name on the list, had been tagged for monitoring on March 13, just five days before the delisting confirmation—the shortest gap between warning and removal in this batch.
Historically, Binance delistings tend to produce sharp, immediate sell-offs followed by a prolonged liquidity drain. When Binance removed WRX in December 2024, the token crashed 40% in a single hour. While some delisted tokens—like Flamingo (FLM), which surged 48% after its October 2025 removal notice—occasionally defy expectations, the norm is a steep and lasting decline once the world’s largest exchange cuts the cord.
Why these tokens were removed
Binance did not single out individual reasons for each token but pointed to its standardized evaluation framework. The exchange noted that when a listed asset no longer meets its quality benchmarks—or when the broader industry landscape shifts—it conducts a deeper review and may move to delist.
The writing had been on the wall for several of these projects. On March 6, 2026, Binance expanded its Monitoring Tag to cover nine tokens it considered higher risk, including FORTH, HOOK, and LRC from this delisting batch. The Monitoring Tag is Binance’s formal warning mechanism—tokens placed under it face closer scrutiny and possible removal if conditions do not improve.
For Loopring specifically, the trajectory has been steep. South Korean exchanges Upbit and Bithumb delisted LRC in February and March 2026, citing deficiencies in disclosures, lack of business sustainability, and insufficient progress on resolving those issues. Loopring’s CEO reportedly resigned in August 2025, and the project shut down its consumer-facing wallet and DeFi products by mid-2025 to refocus on its Layer-2 protocol—a pivot that appears to have failed to satisfy exchange listing requirements.
Timeline for investors
The delisting impacts every Binance product line tied to these tokens. The timeline is staggered, and holders need to pay close attention:
Futures: All positions will be auto-settled on March 24 at 09:00 UTC. No new positions can be opened from 08:30 UTC that day. Binance warned it may also adjust leverage, margin tiers, and funding rates without further notice in the lead-up.
Margin: Borrowing on cross and isolated margin for these tokens suspends on March 19 at 06:00 UTC. Full margin delisting occurs on March 24 at 10:00 UTC, at which point positions will be force-closed and collateral may be auto-sold depending on users’ margin levels.
Simple Earn and Dual Investment: Earn products delist on March 25. Any unredeemed positions will be automatically redeemed and returned to spot accounts.
Spot Copy Trading: Delists on March 25 at 03:00 UTC, with remaining assets force-sold at market price.
Deposits and Withdrawals: Deposits will stop being credited after April 2. Withdrawals remain open until June 1, 2026—after which any remaining balances may be converted into stablecoins on users’ behalf, though Binance noted this conversion is not guaranteed.
Binance’s tightening standards
This delisting is part of a broader pattern. In April 2025, Binance removed 14 tokens following its first-ever community “Vote to Delist” initiative, which drew over 103,000 votes. In October 2025, the exchange dropped FLM, KDA, and PERP.
The pace of removals has accelerated notably since 2024, reflecting a maturing exchange environment where regulatory scrutiny is intensifying globally. Binance itself has been navigating its own compliance overhaul following a $4.3 billion settlement with U.S. authorities in 2023 over anti-money laundering violations.
The exchange now employs over 1,500 compliance staff and holds licenses in 20 jurisdictions, and its listing standards have tightened in parallel—including a 2024 rule requiring new tokens to wait at least one year before becoming tradable.
What comes next
For holders of the eight delisted tokens, the immediate priority is managing positions before the cascading deadlines begin this week. Traders using margin, futures, or earn products face the earliest cutoffs, starting March 19.
The broader market will watch whether these tokens find sustained liquidity on alternative exchanges or whether the Binance delisting effectively marks a death sentence for their trading viability—as it has for several tokens in previous rounds.
