Binance to Remove 12 Spot Pairs Including AAVE on October 30

12 Bitcoin-Quoted Pairs Exit Binance Spot

Binance will remove twelve spot trading pairs quoted in Bitcoin, among them AAVE/BTC, from its exchange at 03:00 UTC on Friday (06:00 Turkey time), the exchange stated in its official announcement published on Tuesday, October 27. The affected pairs cover AAVE, ATOM, CAKE, DASH, ETC, ICP, PENDLE, RENDER, TAO, THETA, XAUT and XTZ, each matched against BTC. Binance framed the removals as the outcome of its periodic market review, naming low liquidity and low trading volume among the criteria it weighs when it reassesses listings. The review is a routine mechanism, and the exchange runs it across its spot markets on a recurring basis. In practice, the cutoff ends the ability to buy or sell these twelve assets directly against Bitcoin on the affected markets. Each asset keeps trading through other pairs on the platform, a point the announcement makes explicit. The change reaches beyond manual orders: Spot Trading Bots services running on the affected pairs shut down at the same hour. Binance asked customers operating automated strategies to stop, cancel or reconfigure their bots before the deadline, to review open orders, bot configurations and account balances, and warned that failing to prepare could produce potential losses. The twelve names cut across several sectors at once: decentralized finance, artificial intelligence, blockchain infrastructure and a gold-backed token all appear on the same list. Binance did not publish per-pair volume figures or a specific reason for any individual removal, so the decision cannot be tied to the technical or financial condition of any single project. The one feature all twelve share is the counter asset: Bitcoin sits on the quote side in every case, and that is the trading channel being closed.

Not a Full Delisting

The announcement does not delist the twelve assets from Binance Spot. What changes is the set of trading matches between specific assets, not the assets themselves. Removing AAVE/BTC does not end AAVE, the governance token of the Aave lending protocol, on the exchange: customers can still trade the asset on its remaining spot pairs, which the announcement confirms stay offered. Balances are not deleted, and the notice says nothing about withdrawals being restricted. The distinction matters most for routing. Anyone who bought or sold these altcoins through a BTC cross will need an alternative market from Friday onward, and the availability of those alternatives has to be checked asset by asset rather than assumed. Binance itself pointed users toward the other listed pairs and advised anyone who prefers executing against Bitcoin to weigh existing orders and trading costs before the cutoff. Users running bots on the affected pairs face the hardest deadline, since their configurations stop working when the markets close. Readers newer to the platform can follow our step-by-step guide on how to trade crypto on Binance to set up orders on a remaining market. The exchange gave no per-pair breakdown of volume or liquidity, so customers cannot tell from the announcement which of the twelve had the thinnest books. Trading activity on the affected books is expected to migrate toward the markets that remain, though the exchange stopped short of predicting where order flow will settle. What the notice does state plainly is the boundary: spot trading on the named pairs ends, the assets remain listed, and the decision sits within Binance's standing program of market-quality reviews rather than a project-specific action.

For AAVE holders the practical change is narrower than the headline suggests. The primary record here is Binance's own notice, and it bounds the removal to the BTC-quoted leg of spot trading; nothing in it touches AAVE's listing status, its balances or its remaining markets. Liquidity on the AAVE/BTC book was thin enough to draw the review, and trading that ran through that leg should migrate to the asset's other spot pairs, which stay open after Friday. For levels into and after the cutoff, AAVE technical analysis gives the current picture. The practical takeaway: the direct Bitcoin route closes, the asset does not leave the venue, and orders against BTC on the affected pairs stop filling at 03:00 UTC on October 30.