Binance to Delist Seven Spot Trading Pairs Including LTC/BNB and SUI/BNB on August 21

Binance will remove seven spot trading pairs on Friday, August 21, 2026, at 03:00 UTC, the exchange announced. The delisting affects pairs involving Sui (SUI), USD Coin (USDC), Litecoin (LTC), and Binance Coin (BNB), among other assets.

The pairs that will permanently cease operations are F/USDC, HIVE/USDC, ILV/USDC, LTC/BNB, NMR/USDC, STEEM/USDC, and SUI/BNB. Trading bot services linked to these pairs will be terminated simultaneously.

The decision stems from Binance's routine market evaluation procedures. According to the exchange's official statement, removing specific pairs is driven by operational factors such as insufficient liquidity and a progressive decline in trading volume. Binance has carried out similar batch removals of spot pairs in earlier rounds, treating them as recurring liquidity maintenance rather than isolated actions against the underlying projects.

Operational Reasons and Asset Continuity

The announcement specifies that delisting a trading pair does not imply the complete delisting of the underlying token. Binance's technical documentation clarifies that users can continue trading LTC, SUI, BNB, and the other affected assets through alternative pairs quoted against stablecoins or Bitcoin.

Platform data shows that direct crosses between altcoins and BNB typically concentrate lower volume compared with markets quoted in USDT or USDC. According to the exchange's market analysis, this type of optimization is intended to improve order book depth and consolidate liquidity into books with higher demand.

Binance's infrastructure will simultaneously halt automated Spot Trading Bots services assigned to the seven trading routes. The technical report warns that active automated orders not canceled by traders before the designated cutoff time will be automatically disabled, which could lead to execution discrepancies for unmanaged portfolios.

The delisted pairs involve projects from diverse industry backgrounds. Litecoin, launched in 2011 as an early fork of Bitcoin's codebase, represents one of the oldest Proof of Work blockchain networks in the market and maintains a sustained presence across global trading platforms. The SUI token, developed by Mysten Labs for a Layer 1 network built on the Move programming language, targets high throughput and parallel execution. Both assets maintain their primary pairs with stablecoins such as USDT on the platform, ensuring their primary liquidity remains structurally uninterrupted.

Assets tied to the USDC pairs — F, HIVE, ILV, NMR, and STEEM — also retain alternative trading routes. NMR is the token associated with Numerai, a data-science-driven hedge fund; ILV belongs to the Illuvium blockchain gaming ecosystem; and HIVE and STEEM are tied to social content blockchains, with Hive created in 2020 as a community fork of Steem.

Binance's systematic reviews assess metrics such as developer team commitment, network stability, smart contract security, and overall public responsiveness to compliance audits. The outcomes of these reviews are disclosed through Binance's official announcements channel, where any further pair-level changes would also be published.

Users with open positions or active algorithmic strategies in these markets must reconfigure their setups before August 21 at 03:00 UTC, at which point the corresponding order books will be permanently closed.

Source: CryptoNewsNet