Binance futures delisting: what happens to your position, and which contracts are going

01Which Binance futures are being delisted right now

Binance always publishes a delisting announcement before trading on a contract stops. The table below is built from Binance's own public contract data and refreshes every hour, so you don't have to scroll through Binance's announcement feed to see what is scheduled. What you are looking for is your ticker and the settlement date and time in UTC — that is the deadline by which you want to be out on your own terms.

Here are the latest delisting announcements, including the ones that are written as spot notices but also close futures positions. It is worth opening the announcement for your own contract, because the general rules below are the default and a specific notice can set different timing.

This happens more often than beginners expect. In the 12 months to 25 October 2026, 86 USDⓈ-M perpetuals were delisted from Binance Futures — up to 18 in a single month (April 2026). Binance lists the reasons it looks at: trading volume and liquidity, network stability and safety, new regulatory requirements, changes in a token's supply, tokenomics, ownership or team commitment, how the project answers due-diligence requests, and evidence of unethical conduct. So contracts coming and going is normal on a list this long. The list below shows which contracts went in recent months — useful mostly to see that small, low-volume coins are the usual candidates.

02What happens to an open position, step by step

The procedure is the same each time, and it runs on a timeline you can plan around. Nobody freezes your margin and nobody takes your profit — the position simply gets closed, and the profit or loss that was only on paper turns into real money on your futures balance, up or down.

1. The announcement

   Binance names the contract and the time trading will stop. Until the cut-off described below, everything works normally: you can open, add, reduce or close as usual.

2. New positions are blocked (reduce-only)

   From a stated moment, only orders that reduce an existing position are accepted. The FAQ says this starts at the latest 30 minutes before trading stops, but a specific announcement can start it days earlier — for PTBUSDT and MITOUSDT it began about two days before settlement, while for the 5 October batch it was the usual 30 minutes. There is also a 30-second grey zone around that moment: an order sent a few seconds after the cut-off can still go through, and Binance says it is not responsible for what happens to it. That is one more reason not to leave your exit to the last minute. If you are not sure what reduce-only means, see Close on Trigger vs Reduce-only.

3. The last 30 minutes

   The contract's mark price becomes the average of the price index taken every second over that half hour — 1,800 readings. The price index is Binance's fair price for the coin, pulled from several markets rather than from the last trade on this one contract. That same average is the settlement price, so the number that closes your trade is being formed while the market is still moving.

4. Automatic settlement

   Any position still open is closed at that 30-minute average price, and the paper result becomes a real one on your balance. Binance charges the same fee it would charge if you closed with a market order yourself — on Binance USDⓈ-M futures that is 0.05% of the position size at the base level. Binance recommends closing beforehand to avoid this.

Here is what that costs in money. Say you hold a long with 500 USDT of margin at 5x, so a position of 2,500 USDT, and you leave it to settlement. The fee is 2,500 × 0.05% = 1.25 USDT — exactly what you would have paid closing it yourself with a market order. The part that is out of your hands is the price: you get the 30-minute index average, not the last traded price on your screen. If the difference between those prices is new to you, our page on index, mark and last price explains which number decides what.

03The final hour is the part to avoid

Binance treats the last hour before settlement differently, and it is the one stretch where a small position can behave badly. In that hour Binance does not use its insurance fund — the money it normally uses to absorb liquidation losses — for that contract. A liquidation goes to the market as one order that either fills straight away or is cancelled, and whatever is left over is passed to other traders through auto-deleveraging (ADL). Binance also warns that volatility tends to be higher and liquidity lower at that point.

On top of that, ahead of a delisting Binance may without further notice cut the maximum leverage and position size, raise the maintenance margin, change the funding caps and change what goes into the price index. A higher maintenance margin moves your liquidation price closer to the market while you are doing nothing at all. None of this touches you if you have already closed the position — which is exactly why the simple answer is to close early instead of trading the final hour.

04What about the coin itself on spot: deposits, withdrawals, conversion

Futures and spot are two separate removals, and the futures contract usually goes first. In the EPIC and QUICK announcement of 14 October 2026, the futures contracts were settled on 20 October, while spot trading continued until 28 October — eight days later. So seeing "delisting" next to a coin name does not tell you which of your two balances is affected; read the announcement title carefully.

For the coins themselves, the same announcement set out the pattern: open spot orders are removed when trading stops, deposits are no longer credited after 29 October 2026, and withdrawals stay open for roughly two months, until 28 December 2026. After that Binance may convert whatever is left into stablecoins, and it says that conversion is not guaranteed. The dates differ from one announcement to the next, so treat these as the shape of the process and check the notice for your coin. The practical point is simple: if you hold the token on spot, move it out or sell it well before the withdrawal deadline.

05What to do if your contract is on the list

If you hold a position on a contract that is being delisted, or you are about to open one, the whole plan fits in a few lines.

• Open the announcement for your contract and write down two times: when new positions stop being accepted, and when trading ceases.
• Close the position yourself, well before the final hour, with a market or limit order — see how to close a futures trade if you have not done it before.
• Cancel every open order on that contract. Binance will not cancel them for you.
• Don't open a new position on a contract that is already reduce-only — the order gets rejected. And if the cut-off has not arrived yet, remember you would be entering a market that has a fixed closing date.
• If you do nothing, expect settlement at the 30-minute index average plus a 0.05% fee on the full position size, and a final result on your balance that may differ from the last price you saw.

The fastest way to know where you stand is to look rather than guess: open Binance Futures, check your open positions and your open orders tab, and compare the tickers with the table at the top of this page. If you want the wider picture of what the exchange offers — contracts, fees, conditions — our Binance Futures overview covers it. And if you trade perpetuals inside the Binance app's wallet instead, that is a different venue with its own list, tracked on our Binance Wallet listings page.