Binance ended spot trading for Across Protocol (ACX), Hashflow (HFT), PIVX, Vulcan Forged (PYR), Vanar (VANRY) and Viction (VIC) at 03:00 UTC on August 17 and canceled every open order in those pairs. BigGo Finance counts it as the exchange's fourth delisting round of 2026, bringing the year's removals to 21 assets. Withdrawals stay open until October 17.
The decision dates to August 3, when the exchange named the six tokens, and futures on them settled on August 7. Monday's shutdown was the visible end of a two-week process. Pruning the board has stopped being an occasional cleanup for the largest exchange in the world. The same clock will start again for other tickers, so the sequence below applies beyond these six.
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
Each deadline in a delisting removes an option. Spot holders lost the ability to sell on Binance at 03:00 UTC on Monday. A day later, at 03:00 UTC on August 18, deposits stopped being credited. That closed the window for moving tokens bought cheaply elsewhere onto the exchange.
Withdrawals are the one door still open, and they stay open until 03:00 UTC on October 17, 2026, according to the notice. After that date, tokens left on the exchange may be converted or become unrecoverable, depending on how Binance handles them. Holders who stop checking risk being stranded, because the outcome is set on Binance's terms, not the holder's. Anyone with any of the six tickers in a Binance account can withdraw them to a self-custody wallet before the deadline, which is absolute.
Binance publishes the criteria for removal but not the scoring. Its review weighs team commitment, development activity, trading volume, network security and regulatory compliance. All six tokens carried the Monitoring Tag, the exchange's public warning label, before removal.
The tags did not come together. Cryptonomist reported that HFT was tagged on May 22, PYR and VANRY on July 3, and ACX only on July 24. The runway from warning to removal therefore ranged from months to barely ten days. That spread is the practical lesson for anyone holding tagged tokens elsewhere on the exchange. A tag has no published countdown: it is a classification that can resolve whenever the next review lands.
The announcement moved prices, the shutdown did not
Price told its usual story: the announcement carried the news, and the shutdown was procedure. On August 3, when the announcement hit, PIVX fell 19.27 percent, PYR 18.31 percent, HFT 11.47 percent to an all-time low of $0.007, VIC 11.24 percent and ACX 5.22 percent, BigGo Finance reported. VANRY rose 8.23 percent against the news, a move that can signal either a short squeeze or traders betting that the token's other venues will absorb the flow.
By the time the pairs closed on Monday, the market had had two weeks to reprice. The shutdown itself passed without a second shock.
We track listings on this site, and delistings are the same process in reverse. The mechanics in the exchange listings guide apply both ways: access drives liquidity, liquidity drives price, and an exchange decision changes access at once. Four days before this batch closed, the market had welcomed two fresh tickers going live. A venue decides what it lists, reviews that decision periodically and can reverse it on a schedule the issuers do not control.
One date remains open for this batch: 03:00 UTC on October 17, the last moment to withdraw. After that, the only open question is which tickers the next review adds to the same sequence, and the Monitoring Tag is the public signal that precedes it.
