The two-week countdown ran out on Monday. At 03:00 UTC on August 17, Binance switched off spot trading for Across Protocol (ACX), Hashflow (HFT), PIVX, Vulcan Forged (PYR), Vanar (VANRY) and Viction (VIC), canceling every open order in the affected pairs automatically, per the exchange notice covered by Crypto Briefing and BigGo Finance. The decision itself dates to August 3, and the futures side settled back on August 7, so Monday's shutdown was the visible end of a process that had been grinding for two weeks. It was also, per BigGo's count, the fourth delisting round Binance has run this year, bringing 2026's total to 21 removed assets. For the largest exchange in the world, pruning the board is no longer an occasional cleanup. It is a quarterly habit, and it is worth understanding mechanically because the same clock will start again for a different set of tickers soon enough.
Six tokens named, all previously Monitoring Tagged.
Derivatives on affected tokens closed at 09:00.
Pairs removed at 03:00, open orders canceled.
Inbound transfers no longer credited after 03:00.
Last day to move tokens off the exchange.
What the calendar still owes holders
The part of a delisting that matters after the headline is the sequence of deadlines, because each one quietly removes an option. Spot holders lost their exit-on-Binance at 03:00 UTC Monday. A day later, at 03:00 UTC on August 18, deposits stopped being credited, which closes the arbitrage window where tokens bought cheaply elsewhere could still be moved onto the exchange. The one door still open is withdrawals, and it stays open until 03:00 UTC on October 17, 2026, per the notice. Two months sounds generous until you remember how reliably people forget: every previous purge has stranded balances belonging to holders who stopped checking, and whatever remains after the deadline is handled on Binance's terms, not the holder's. If any of the six tickers sits in a Binance account you or someone you know controls, the useful action is boring and takes five minutes, and the deadline is absolute.
The selection logic is published, if not the scoring. Binance's review weighs team commitment, development activity, trading volume, network security and regulatory compliance, and all six tokens wore the Monitoring Tag before removal, the exchange's public probation label. The tags were not simultaneous: HFT carried one from May 22, PYR and VANRY from July 3, ACX only from July 24, per Cryptonomist, which means the runway between warning and removal ranged from months to barely ten days. That spread is the practical lesson for anyone holding tagged tokens elsewhere on the board: the tag is not a countdown with a published duration, it is a classification that can resolve whenever the next review lands.
The announcement was the trade, the delisting was the paperwork
Price told the same story it always tells. The damage happened on August 3, when the announcement hit: PIVX fell 19.27 percent, PYR lost 18.31 percent, HFT dropped 11.47 percent to an all-time low of $0.007, VIC gave up 11.24 percent and ACX slipped 5.22 percent, per BigGo Finance. The lone exception was VANRY, which rose 8.23 percent against the news, the kind of move that usually signals either a short squeeze or traders betting the token's other venues absorb the flow. By the time the pairs actually died on Monday, the market had two weeks to reprice, and the shutdown itself passed without a second shock.
We track listings on this site because they are the front door of the exchange economy, and delistings are the same machine running in reverse, worth the same attention. The mechanics we lay out in the exchange listings guide apply symmetrically: access drives liquidity, liquidity drives price, and an exchange decision changes access instantly in both directions. A market that celebrated two fresh tickers going live four days before this batch died is not being inconsistent. It is being exactly what it is: a venue business where shelf space is rented, reviewed and repossessed on a schedule the tenants do not control.
