The world's largest crypto exchange Binance is set to temporarily suspend its US stock trading service on August 8 due to a scheduled infrastructure upgrade by a partner broker. The maintenance is expected to last approximately three hours, during which users will be unable to access the equities trading feature.
Separately, Binance announced the removal of several spot trading pairs effective August 7. The pairs being delisted are QNT/BTC, RPL/USDC, SIGN/BNB, and SKL/USDC. The exchange clarified that this action does not affect the availability of the underlying tokens; traders can still buy and sell the base and quote assets through other available trading pairs on Binance.
Binance routinely conducts such pair removals as part of its market quality reviews, eliminating those with insufficient liquidity or trading volume. The exchange noted that in previous instances where it completely delisted tokens—such as ACX, HFT, PIVX, and others—prices fell sharply. However, when only specific trading pairs are dropped, as in this case, the impact is typically muted. Binance emphasized that the delisting of a spot trading pair does not mean a token is being removed from the platform entirely.
