Crypto Exchanges

Story: Binance Cuts 5 Trading Pairs as Low-Volume Pairs Face the Axe

By Bruce Buterin

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What Traders Need to Do Right Now. Anyone still holding positions in ADABUSD, ATOMBUSD, COMPBUSD, DOGEBIDR, or ETHBIDR has two…

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Binance's Routine Culling Process. Binance frames this kind of delisting as routine, and that's pretty much accurate historically.

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Binance dropped five trading pairs. Quietly, without much fanfare, the world's largest crypto exchange pulled ADABUSD, ATOMBUSD, COMPBUSD, DOGEBIDR, and ETHBIDR from its…

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It's not a dramatic move by Binance's standards, but it's a real one. The exchange has long maintained one of the broadest token listings in the industry, and that breadth comes…

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Users with open positions in those pairs need to move fast.

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Anyone still holding positions in ADABUSD, ATOMBUSD, COMPBUSD, DOGEBIDR, or ETHBIDR has two options: trade out of them into other available pairs, or withdraw the underlying…

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It's worth noting what these pairs actually are. ADABUSD is Cardano paired against Binance's BUSD stablecoin. ATOMBUSD is Cosmos against BUSD.

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Read also: MiCAs 70% Unregulated Wallet Problem Puts Binance and EU Crypto Rules to the Test

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That said, Binance didn't share any specific thresholds here — no volume floor, no liquidity ratio, nothing concrete.

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The broader pattern matters here. Across crypto, exchanges have been tightening up their listings over the past couple of years.

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And it's not just Binance. Smaller exchanges have been quietly pruning their pair lists too, especially anything tied to stablecoins with uncertain regulatory status.

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For now, the five pairs are confirmed gone. Binance said it remains committed to a robust platform and will keep assessing its offerings, which is corporate-speak for: more cuts…

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More context: Robinhood Opens Crypto Trading to AI Agents After 70,000 Accounts Sign Up

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The exchange didn't respond to requests for more detail on the delisting criteria or whether BIDR-paired assets face broader risk going forward.

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