Binance issued two consecutive announcements on July 21. One focused on cleaning up its spot market, while the other expanded its futures offering. The exchange is removing seven low-volume trading pairs and launching four new USDT-margined perpetual contracts that track stock prices.
Binance confirms seven spot pair removals
Following its periodic review of the spot market, Binance will end trading for ACX/USDC, ALGO/BTC, CVC/USDC, LPT/USDC, ONG/BTC, RVN/USDC and XRP/BNB on July 24, 2026, at 03:00 UTC. The exchange cited weak liquidity and low trading volume as the reason.
The tokens themselves will not be completely delisted from Binance. Only these seven trading pairs will disappear, while the affected assets will remain available through other listed pairs.
Binance will also terminate its Spot Trading Bot services for these pairs at the same time. Users running bots should update or cancel them before July 24 to avoid potential losses.
Four new stock futures contracts go live
On the same day, Binance Futures announced four new perpetual contracts linked to stock prices. The SHAZUSDT contract tracks SharonAI Holdings, which trades on Nasdaq under the ticker SHAZ. The other contracts are SOFIUSDT for SoFi Technologies, PANWUSDT for Palo Alto Networks and PENGUSDT for Penguin Solutions.
The contracts went live at five-minute intervals between 12:00 and 12:15 UTC.
All four operate under the same framework. They have a tick size of $0.01, a minimum trade value of $5 and maximum funding rates of plus or minus 2%. Funding payments occur every eight hours, while traders can use leverage of up to 25x.
The contracts remain available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and support Binance’s Multi-Assets Mode. Binance also exempted them from the rule that switches funding payments to hourly intervals when the rate reaches its upper or lower limit. Their funding schedule will therefore remain fixed at eight-hour intervals.
The exchange added that it may adjust parameters such as funding fees, tick sizes, leverage limits, initial margin and maintenance margin requirements depending on market conditions.
What does the move mean?
Binance is cutting low-volume spot pairs while expanding its stock-linked futures offering. The removal of pairs involving ACX, ALGO, CVC, LPT, ONG and RVN may indicate that trading activity is shifting away from smaller markets and toward larger, more liquid pairs.
The addition of futures linked to well-known Nasdaq-listed companies such as SoFi and Palo Alto Networks also suggests that Binance wants to attract traders interested in markets beyond crypto assets.
Timing is the main issue for users. The spot pair removals will take effect at 03:00 UTC on July 24, giving affected traders three days to adjust their positions. The four new perpetual contracts are already live.
