Binance Removes Ten Crypto Pairs from Cross Margin Trading

Binance Removes Ten Crypto Pairs from Cross Margin Trading

Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, has announced the removal of ten trading pairs from its cross margin trading mode. The move stems from low liquidity across these pairs and is part of a broader effort to streamline the trading platform. Traders holding margin positions in the affected pairs should close them well in advance to avoid forced liquidation.

The decision from the leading exchange underscores mounting pressure on the altcoin market, where the lines between traditional and digital assets continue to blur and liquidity remains the key factor determining whether a trading pair survives.

Which Trading Pairs Are Being Removed?

According to Binance's official notice, the following pairs will be dropped from cross margin trading:

• POL (Polygon) — formerly known as MATIC, the native token of the Polygon ecosystem;
• ALCX — the Alchemix protocol token;
• PNUT — the Peanut the Squirrel meme token;
• ARKM — the token behind the Arkham Intelligence analytics platform;
• SAPIEN — a social platform crypto asset;
• BROCCOLI714 — an experimental token;
• OPEN — the OpenDAO token;
• CKB — the native asset of the Nervos blockchain;
• HOLO — the Holochain distributed network token;
• FIL — the Filecoin decentralized storage network token.

All of these pairs had shown a sustained decline in trading volume, making their continued support in margin mode unjustifiable from the exchange's perspective.

What Does Removal from Cross Margin Actually Mean?

There's a crucial distinction between a full delisting and removal from margin trading. Cross margin trading uses the entire margin account balance as collateral, which creates heightened risk when dealing with illiquid assets. Pulling pairs from this mode is a user protection measure — not the end of trading for these tokens on Binance. Spot trading for the affected assets will generally continue to operate as normal.

Why Is Binance Cutting These Pairs?

Binance regularly reviews its list of available margin pairs based on several core metrics:

1. Liquidity — low trading volumes widen spreads and increase risk for traders;
2. Volatility — extreme price swings make margin trading especially dangerous;
3. User demand — if a pair fails to attract enough participants, maintaining it serves no purpose.

This comes after reports that USDT reserves on exchanges plunged by $9 billion, signaling systemic liquidity problems across the crypto market. Declining stablecoin liquidity on exchanges directly drags down altcoin trading volumes, and thinly traded pairs are the first casualties. Binance's decision to cut ten pairs fits squarely into this trend: the exchange is working to concentrate liquidity around its most in-demand instruments.

Post-Removal Restrictions

Once the changes take effect, users will no longer be able to transfer these assets between cross margin and isolated margin accounts — in either automatic or manual mode. The sole exception applies to outstanding liabilities: in those cases, transfers remain available up to the debt amount minus collateral already deposited.

Recent Policy Shifts

This decision follows Binance's recent announcement about restructuring its SAFU insurance fund. The company moved its reserves from the USDC stablecoin into Bitcoin, aiming to strengthen the reliability of its user protection mechanisms.