Binance Delists Two Digital Assets With Spot Trading Ending October 28

Spot Pairs End October 28

Binance will remove every spot trading pair for Epic Chain (EPIC) and QuickSwap (QUICK) at 03:00 UTC on October 28, the exchange's official notice confirmed on Wednesday. The move ends the two assets' trading on that venue; it does not end the assets themselves, which remain held and traded wherever else they are listed. The decision followed the platform's most recent periodic reviews, and it reaches further than the spot market: open spot orders are cancelled automatically once trading stops, and Trading Bots on both pairs shut down the same day. QUICK, the governance token of the QuickSwap decentralized exchange, fell about 10% below its pre-announcement level once the notice went live, and roughly 17 minutes later it still traded 6.69% lower. EPIC slid about 9% from the same mark, then recovered within that window and moved 5.61% above it. QUICK showed no comparable recovery in the measured window. Steep slides after Binance delisting notices have repeated across recent rounds: in August, ICON (ICX) and Secret (SCRT) sank to fresh all-time lows, losing 12.5% and 18.8%, while PIVX dropped 19.27% and Vulcan Forged PYR shed 18.31% after separate announcements. Vanar (VANRY) was the exception, trading 8.23% higher despite early losses, a path that resembles EPIC's rebound. Losing a listing on the venue typically drains liquidity and pushes holders to exit before the final session, and the impact lands hardest on tokens whose volume concentrates on large centralized exchanges. Both altcoins spent months under Binance's Monitoring Tag before the decision. QUICK received the label on April 30, while the exchange added EPIC on May 22, placements that preceded the removal by roughly five and six months. The tag flags listings the exchange considers more volatile and risky than its other assets, and it warns that tagged tokens may eventually fail the listing criteria.

Staged Wind-Down Starts October 15

The removal rolls out in stages beginning this week, so each product loses the two tokens on its own date rather than all at once. On October 15, Binance suspends margin borrowing for both tokens and drops them from its Buy & Sell Crypto service. October 20 brings a wider sweep: no new futures positions can open, all EPIC and QUICK contracts are settled, outstanding loans are closed, the tokens leave margin trading and Binance Pay stops supporting them. Spot Copy Trading support ends a day later, on October 21 at 03:00 UTC, and remaining assets in affected portfolios are force-sold at market price; amounts too small to sell move to users' Spot Accounts, while Simple Earn redeems Flexible and Locked positions into the same account. Traders running copy portfolios were told to make the necessary adjustments before that date. The critical date for spot holders stays October 28, when spot trading ends, all open orders are removed, Trading Bots stop running on both pairs, and Binance Convert and Gift Card drop the tokens. Deposits will no longer be credited from October 29. Withdrawals continue until December 28, after which the exchange may convert leftover balances into stablecoins on December 29, though it said conversion is not guaranteed. The schedule gives traders 6 days to close leveraged positions and 2 weeks to exit spot holdings before the halt, and users running automated strategies were advised to review their order types and cancel or update them ahead of the deadlines. The official delisting announcement names no single decisive reason. Binance said its periodic reviews weigh trading volume and liquidity, development activity, team commitment, project communication, community participation and transparency, alongside regulatory changes, unjustified token supply increases, tokenomics shifts, changes in ownership or core team members, and fraud or unethical conduct claims.

Liquidity Beyond Binance

Two threads run through the notice. The venue is not shutting down: its other listings and services continue untouched, and the removal covers two assets only. Nor is either asset ending: EPIC and QUICK keep being held and traded wherever else they are listed, and the withdrawal window that runs to December 28 leaves months to move balances off the exchange. QUICK's failure to rebound while EPIC recovered above its starting mark shows how unevenly a removal lands once a token's liquidity has already thinned. QUICK technical analysis will show whether the selling finds a floor before the October 28 halt.