Bybit Delisting of VIC and L3: Two Withdrawal Deadlines for Your Calendar

If you are holding Viction (VIC) or Layer3 (L3) on Bybit, one hard date matters above all others: trading in both tokens ends there on September 17, 2026 at 08:00 UTC. After that you can no longer sell them on Bybit, but you can still move them out. For VIC that withdrawal window runs until December 16, 2026, 08:00 UTC; for L3, Bybit names no end date at all. The Bybit delisting therefore sets a withdrawal deadline that looks completely different depending on which token you hold.

There is a second calendar on top of that, and almost nobody has it in view. Binance dropped VIC from spot trading back on August 17, and withdrawals there close on October 17, 2026, 03:00 UTC. Anyone holding VIC on both crypto exchanges is working against two clocks that sit two months apart. This piece sorts out both calendars, explains the terms behind them, and tells you which step in the next few days is actually yours to take.

What Bybit is switching off for VIC and L3: the four dates

Bybit published the removal on September 10, 2026. The exchange names the two affected spot trading pairs directly: L3USDT and VICUSDT. The process consists of four dates that fall due one after another.

• Deposits for L3 and VIC close after September 16, 2026, 08:00 UTC. Send tokens to your Bybit account after that and you risk them never being credited.
• Spot trading and Convert end after September 17, 2026, 08:00 UTC. Open orders on the two pairs are removed automatically, so you do not have to cancel them yourself.
• DCA bots and spot grid bots on L3USDT and VICUSDT are yours to close before that moment. If you do not, the system ends them for you.
• Withdrawals stay open for now. For VIC, Bybit draws the line at December 16, 2026, 08:00 UTC; for L3 the notice gives no date and merely recommends withdrawing early.

All four figures appear in the official Bybit announcement of September 10, 2026. Convert the times for your own zone: in September, 08:00 UTC is 10:00 Central European Summer Time. The close of trading therefore lands on Thursday, September 17, at 10:00 CEST.

How to find the details in the original announcement

The notice is written in English and carries the title “Delisting of L3, VIC”. If you want to check the details at the source, use the subheadings as your guide: the line “Delisted trading pairs” names L3USDT and VICUSDT. The close of trading sits under “Spot”, written there as “Sep 17, 2026, 8:00AM UTC”. The block that takes effect a day earlier is under “Deposits”. The request to shut down running bots yourself hides behind the heading “DCA Bot & Spot Grid Bot”, and the end of VIC withdrawals is right at the bottom under “Asset retirement”.

Close of trading, deposit freeze and withdrawal deadline are three different dates

The most common mistake when reading notices like this is to lump all the dates together. The three cut-offs mean very different things, and only one of them can cost you your balance.

Delisting

A delisting is the removal of a token from an exchange's offering. The token disappears from the venue, not from the blockchain: your VIC still exist unchanged after September 17, they are simply no longer tradable on Bybit.

Trading pair and close of trading

A trading pair is the combination of the token and the currency you swap it against. Bybit is not removing the tokens as such here, but the pairs against USDT. When trading closes the sell button disappears, while your balance stays visible in the account.

Deposit freeze

The deposit freeze only cuts off new supply. For anything already sitting in the account it is harmless, and at Bybit it takes effect one day before trading closes. In practice that means one thing: moving tokens from another exchange to Bybit after September 16 in order to sell them there will fail.

Withdrawal deadline

The withdrawal deadline is the last moment at which you can transfer the token from the exchange to an address you own yourself. This is the date where things get expensive, because after it your balance depends on a goodwill decision by the exchange. We have described how this chain plays out in practice in our primer on a delisting at a crypto exchange.

Why VIC holders now face two withdrawal deadlines at two exchanges

Viction is the more unusual of the two cases, because the token already has one delisting round behind it. On August 3, Binance announced it would drop six tokens, VIC among them, and ended spot trading on August 17, 2026 at 03:00 UTC. We wrote it up in detail at the time: Binance delisting on August 17: ACX, HFT, PIVX, PYR, VANRY and VIC leave spot trading.

The decisive line is the one that still looked far off back then. The Binance notice states in so many words that withdrawals of these tokens will no longer be supported after October 17, 2026, 03:00 UTC. So if you hold VIC at both venues, your calendar looks like this:

• Binance: trading ended on August 17, withdrawals until October 17, 2026, 03:00 UTC.
• Bybit: trading until September 17, 2026, 08:00 UTC, withdrawals until December 16, 2026, 08:00 UTC.

That is two cut-offs 60 days apart for one and the same token. Remember the later one and forget the earlier one, and the Binance balance drops off your radar even though the clock there runs faster. This confusion is exactly why one calendar entry per exchange and per token works better than one entry per token. And if you spread your holdings across several venues anyway, it is worth taking a sober look beforehand at which crypto exchange is actually good for which purpose.

L3 has no stated withdrawal end at Bybit, and that is no all-clear

For Layer3, the Bybit notice says only that you can continue to withdraw your holdings once trading has ended, together with a recommendation to do so early. The exchange names no end date for L3. The December 16 deadline in the notice applies to VIC alone.

Two conclusions follow from that, and a third does not. You may conclude, first, that no countdown is currently running for L3, and second, that Bybit is keeping the option open to set one later. What you may not conclude is that withdrawals will stay open indefinitely. A missing deadline is certainly not a promise; it marks a gap in the notice, and exchanges routinely add such deadlines in a second announcement. Leave L3 sitting in your account after trading closes and you are relying on reading a future announcement in time.

Forced conversion into stablecoins is a possibility, not a commitment by the exchange

Both exchanges describe the same procedure for tokens still sitting in an account once the withdrawal deadline has passed: the balance may be converted into stablecoins and credited. What matters is how carefully both houses phrase it.

Bybit writes that VIC may be converted into stablecoins on your behalf, “though this is not guaranteed” — explicitly without any guarantee. Binance puts it almost the same way and adds a second line that regularly gets lost: where a conversion is not feasible, Binance says it will keep withdrawals open, subject to the availability of the respective network.

For you that means two things. The conversion is a safety net, not an entitlement you can plan around. And it depends on conditions outside your reach, such as whether any trading venue for the conversion still exists for the token in question. With a token at VIC's trading volume that is a real question, not a theoretical one. No sentence in this announcement hands you a payout the exchanges do not promise themselves.

The system ends DCA bots and spot grid bots by itself on September 17

A spot grid bot is an automated tool that places a stream of small buy and sell orders within a defined price range. A DCA bot instead buys a fixed amount at fixed intervals, regardless of the price. Both tie up capital, and both keep running quietly if you set them up once and then forgot about them.

Bybit explicitly asks users to close active DCA and spot grid bots on L3USDT and VICUSDT before September 17, 2026, 08:00 UTC, failing which the system will end them automatically. That automation is convenient, but it comes with a catch: you no longer decide at what price the last position is unwound. Close the bot yourself and you choose the moment. Leave it to the system and you take whatever a thinned-out market offers on the day. Checking the bot overview in your account takes two minutes and belongs on the list of things you want done before the weekend.

Is Bybit authorised in the EU, and does the delisting affect you as an EU customer?

Yes, Bybit is authorised in the EU. Austria's financial market authority FMA authorised Bybit EU GmbH on May 28, 2025 as a provider of crypto-asset services under Article 63 of the European MiCA regulation. Via the European passport that authorisation applies across the entire European Economic Area, with the European seat in Vienna.

That brings a limitation you have to check yourself. The delisting notice comes from the exchange's global announcement service. If your account is held with the European entity, the range available there can differ from the global one, because MiCA sets its own requirements for listed crypto assets. So do not assume the pairs in your account are named exactly as they are in the notice. Open your balance instead and look for yourself whether VIC or L3 are actually there. If licensing is something you want to be certain about in general, our overview of regulated crypto exchanges lists the providers holding a European licence.

Where to send VIC and L3 after the withdrawal: wallet, second exchange or sale

If you have decided not to sell the tokens before trading closes, you need a destination for the withdrawal. There are three workable routes, and they differ less in effort than in the question of who holds the key afterwards.

Your own wallet

Withdrawing to an address whose key is in your hands makes you independent of any further exchange decision. For a token that has just been dropped by two venues, that is the strongest argument there is. Take care to pick the right network: Viction runs on a chain of its own, Layer3 as an ERC-20 token on Ethereum. A withdrawal sent to the wrong network is as a rule not recoverable. Our hardware wallet comparison shows which devices are suited to the job.

A second exchange

Transferring to another exchange makes sense if you can still sell the token there. Check two things first: whether the venue lists the pair at all, and whether it is currently accepting deposits for that token. After a wave of delistings it happens regularly that several houses drop the same token within a short span. A transfer into an account that blocks the token three weeks later merely postpones the problem.

Selling before trading closes

Selling by September 17 is the simplest route, and for the amounts involved here often the most sensible one. Expect liquidity to thin out in the final days before a delisting, though, with the gap between bid and ask wider than usual. A limit order protects you from exiting at a price you never intended.

What a delisting triggers for tax purposes and what it does not

In our experience this distinction costs people the most nerves, even though the core of it is simple. What counts is whether a transaction qualifies as a disposal.

A withdrawal to your own wallet is not a disposal. No owner changes, no gain or loss arises, and the holding period keeps running unchanged. In tax terms, nothing happens at all.

A sale before trading closes, by contrast, is a private disposal transaction under section 23 of the German Income Tax Act. If the purchase was more than a year ago, the gain remains tax free. Within the year, an exemption threshold of 1,000 euros has applied since 2024 for all private disposal transactions combined. Exceed it and the entire gain becomes taxable, not just the part above the threshold.

The third case is where it gets interesting. A forced conversion into stablecoins is economically an exchange, and tax law usually treats exchanges like a disposal. That argues for classifying this transaction as tax relevant too, at a moment you did not choose yourself. Which is precisely why it is cleaner to sell or withdraw under your own steam rather than leave the decision to the exchange. For larger amounts this question belongs in front of a tax adviser, not in a forum. If you have your transactions recorded on an ongoing basis anyway, our comparison of crypto tax software and portfolio trackers covers the suitable tools.

One practical note: secure the trade history and account statement for both tokens while you still have access. After a delisting, export functions for removed pairs disappear at some houses sooner than expected, and without acquisition data every later calculation turns into an estimate.

How big Viction and Layer3 actually still are

To keep the scale straight, a look at the numbers helps. According to CoinGecko data retrieved on September 11, 2026 at 08:17 UTC, Layer3 (L3) stands at around 0.0033 US dollars, a market capitalisation of roughly 5.97 million US dollars and rank 1521. Viction (VIC) trades at around 0.0047 US dollars with a good 0.6 million US dollars in market capitalisation at rank 3351. Daily volume comes to about 370,000 and 91,000 US dollars respectively.

This is not a market event, and this article is not trying to turn it into one. It is a portfolio matter. Those affected are the people still holding these tokens, often from an airdrop round or an old purchase, and who for that reason no longer check the account regularly. For that group the date very much counts, because at volumes like these even the forced conversion is anything but a given.

Your checklist for the next few days

Work through the points in this order; it follows the deadlines:

1. Check your balance. Open your Bybit holdings and look for VIC or L3. Switch on the display of small balances while you are there, otherwise the overview hides tiny amounts.
2. Switch off the bots. Check the bot overview for active DCA or spot grid bots on L3USDT and VICUSDT and close them yourself.
3. No more deposits. From September 16, 08:00 UTC, send nothing further to Bybit from outside.
4. Decide by September 17, 08:00 UTC. Sell while the pair is still running, or deliberately switch to withdrawal.
5. Check the second calendar. If you also hold VIC at Binance: withdrawals there run until October 17, 2026, 03:00 UTC. That date sits two months ahead of the Bybit one.
6. Secure your records. Export the trade history and acquisition data before the pairs vanish from the interface.

Checking the Bybit delisting: what to take away

1. September 17 is your decision day, not your end date. Until 08:00 UTC you can sell on Bybit; after that you can only withdraw. If you opt for the withdrawal, you need a destination where the key belongs to you: the selection is in the hardware wallet comparison.
2. Keep a separate deadline for each exchange. Two clocks are running for VIC: October 17 at Binance and December 16 at Bybit. If you spread holdings across several venues, you should know which provider is good for what: our overview of the best crypto exchanges sorts that out.
3. Document the transaction immediately. Whether you sell, withdraw or are converted later: without an acquisition date and purchase price, the tax return turns into an estimate. You will find the right tools in the comparison of crypto tax software.

(As of September 11, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Prices and fee structures change; check the terms with the provider before you buy.)