KuCoin delists 25 tokens: you have until October 7 to withdraw them — and the official deadline list shows only 10

Anyone holding one of the 25 tokens that KuCoin removed from trading on September 7, 2026 has until October 7, 2026 at 8:00 UTC to withdraw them from the exchange. After that the withdrawal window closes. Selling is already off the table, because trading has been halted since September 7. That leaves exactly one action: move the tokens to an address of your own.

Our KuCoin review covers fees, the MiCA licence of KuCoin EU and why trading there has been paused since February 2026.

The second point is the more uncomfortable one, and it comes from our own count: on the evening of September 8, KuCoin's official deadline overview listed only ten of these 25 tokens. Anyone who looks there and fails to find their token might conclude that they are not affected. That would be an expensive mistake.

KuCoin delisting: these 25 tokens are affected

In its announcement of September 3, 2026, KuCoin names these tokens: ACX, HYDRA, KARRAT, PORTALS, GAFI, SCOR, AUDIO, BLUM, HONEY, SN3, NOBODY, TSTBSC, HPOS10I, LVVA, MTRG, EMYC, DUCK, J, MOVA, BFC, WEN, FWOG, GAIN, WAXP and REEF. Trading was discontinued on September 7, 2026 at 8:00 UTC.

These are mostly small projects, but not exclusively. AUDIO is the token of the music platform Audius, for which we maintain a price prediction of its own; WAXP belongs to the WAX blockchain, MTRG to Meter Governance, ACX to the cross-chain protocol Across. Anyone who has had these holdings sitting in a secondary account for years may not have looked at it for months.

The three key dates: trading halt, deposit halt, withdrawal deadline

A delisting does not happen in a single day; it runs in three stages. In this case they fall as follows:

• September 4, 2026, 8:00 UTC: deposits of the affected tokens were switched off. Anyone who still sent tokens to their KuCoin address after that point has to reckon with them not being credited.
• September 7, 2026, 8:00 UTC: trading was discontinued. From this point a sale through the exchange is no longer possible.
• October 7, 2026, 8:00 UTC: withdrawals close. That is the deadline that counts.

Thirty days lie between the trading halt and the withdrawal deadline. That is the usual shape, which other exchanges also choose, and it is more generous than what Bitfinex offered in August with 13 tokens. Generous does not mean harmless, though: the deadline runs whether you notice it or not, and an email reminder is no substitute for checking yourself. If you want to understand how exchanges behave in cases like this and what marks out a dependable platform, our comparison of the best crypto exchanges is the place to look.

Deadline list checked: only 10 of 25 tokens were listed there

Alongside the individual announcements, KuCoin maintains a continuously updated overview page carrying the trading, deposit and withdrawal deadlines of all delisted tokens. We retrieved that page on September 8, 2026 at around 21:50 UTC and compared it with the announcement of September 3.

The result: ten of the 25 announced tokens were entered there with complete deadlines — KARRAT, SCOR, REEF, GAFI, AUDIO, ACX, PORTALS, BLUM, WAXP and HYDRA. All ten carry the same three points in time: trading until September 7 at 8:00 UTC, deposits until September 4 at 8:00 UTC, withdrawals until October 7 at 8:00 UTC.

Fifteen tokens from the same announcement were not on that overview at the time of our retrieval: HONEY, SN3, NOBODY, TSTBSC, HPOS10I, LVVA, MTRG, EMYC, DUCK, J, MOVA, BFC, WEN, FWOG and GAIN. That is a snapshot and not an accusation — overview pages are updated after the fact, and it is quite possible that the missing entries have since been added. For you as a holder, a practical rule follows all the same: the announcement is the binding source, the overview page is the convenience. Check your holdings against the announcement, not against the list.

Special treatment: what lies behind the procedure

For this delisting KuCoin invokes its so-called Special Treatment Rules. That is an internal set of rules which places projects under observation when certain metrics break down — persistently low trading volume, absent development activity or a project team that stops responding. A definition in one sentence: special treatment is the warning status an exchange gives a token before it removes it for good.

For you as a holder, one thing above all matters here: a delisting under this procedure says something about tradability on this one exchange, not necessarily about the token itself. The token continues to exist on its blockchain. What disappears is the convenient access through the exchange interface.

ACX and J: two tokens already removed elsewhere

Two names on the list have crossed our path in the past four weeks. We reported on August 14 on the Binance delisting of August 17, 2026, in which ACX among others fell out of trading; and on August 22 on the OKX delisting of MAJOR and J with a withdrawal deadline of August 26. Both pieces of information come from our own reporting and are marked as such here.

No verdict on prices can be derived from this, but a practical consequence can: when a token is removed by several large exchanges one after another, the circle of places where you can still sell it at all shrinks. Anyone who only reacts after the third delisting may find no trading venue left with usable depth. That is the real reason the deadline matters more than the day's price.

Preparing the withdrawal: network, address and minimum amount

A withdrawal rarely fails because of the deadline and often because of a detail. There are three points you should settle before you start the process.

The network. Many of the affected tokens exist on several chains. If you pick a different network for the withdrawal than your destination address supports, in the worst case the tokens are lost. Check in the withdrawal dialogue which networks are offered and match that against your wallet.

The destination address. You need an address whose keys you hold yourself, or an account at another exchange that still lists the token. For the first option a hardware wallet is the most robust route; which devices support which chains is set out in our hardware wallet comparison. The second route sounds simpler but merely shifts the problem: the next exchange can delist too.

The minimum amount. Exchanges set a lower limit and a fixed fee for every withdrawal. With residual holdings worth a few euros, the fee can exceed the amount — the withdrawal is then technically possible but economically pointless. That is annoying, but it is a deliberate decision and not an omission.

When the withdrawal fails: the liability disclaimer in the small print

The deadline overview carries a sentence that is easy to skim past. KuCoin points out there that withdrawals can fail if a project team restricts activity on its own chain — by halting block production or transfers, for instance. In such a case the platform may suspend withdrawals and is not liable for any losses arising from that.

This is more than a formality. It means that the deadline of October 7 is an upper limit and not a promise. If the chain of a delisted project stops running before then, the chance to withdraw ends earlier — with the exchange taking no responsibility for it. For projects whose development is already stalling, that is not a theoretical risk. The conclusion is uncomfortable and simple: do not wait until early October.

KuCoin EU and kucoin.com: first check where your account sits

For users in Germany there is a particular point to settle before any further step: two operations exist. The announcement discussed here comes from the global platform. Alongside it stands KuCoin EU Exchange GmbH, which according to the public ESMA register holds a MiCA authorisation as a crypto service provider from the Austrian financial market authority, granted at the end of November 2025.

Whether a delisting announcement from the global platform applies one to one to customers of the European entity does not emerge from the announcement itself. So log in to the account where your tokens actually sit and check in the withdrawal dialogue there whether the token can still be withdrawn and until when. While you are at it, sort out which providers hold your remaining assets and which of them is authorised in the EU.

Tax: what the withdrawal means for your holding period

A pure transfer from the exchange to an address of your own is not a sale. In Germany it does not in principle trigger a taxable event, and it does not interrupt the one-year holding period under Section 23 of the Income Tax Act either. The only thing that matters is that you can still evidence the date and the cost of acquisition.

That is precisely where things often fail in practice. When a token is delisted, the trading data sooner or later disappears from the exchange interface as well. So download the complete transaction history for that token before you withdraw and file it with your tax records. Nobody will retrieve that file for you later.

Worthless residual holdings: withdraw or leave them?

Not every position is worth the effort. If your holding lands in the cents range after the withdrawal fee, the sober answer is: the economic damage has already occurred, and the deadline changes nothing about that.

Two reasons still speak for withdrawing. First, a token whose development continues can become tradable again later — on an address of your own you keep that option, on an exchange without a trading pair you do not. Second, for a tax loss to be recognised you need an event you can evidence; a holding that quietly expires in an account is harder to present than one you demonstrably still own. Whether that adds up for you depends on the size of the fee, and you see that in the withdrawal dialogue before you confirm.

How we counted: method and limits

This analysis was carried out by cryptoticker.io itself on September 8, 2026. Method: we retrieved the delisting announcement of September 3, 2026 and KuCoin's continuously updated deadline overview on September 8, 2026 at around 21:50 UTC, read out the visible text without the HTML scaffolding, and checked each of the 25 tokens named in the announcement individually against the entries on the overview page. Checked: 25 tokens, two pages. Result: 10 tokens with a complete set of deadlines on the overview, 15 without an entry there.

What remains open is any view behind a login: the actual withdrawal dialogue, the networks offered for your token and the specific fees. It also remains open whether and when the missing 15 entries will be added, and whether the announcement from the global platform applies unchanged to the European entity. Anyone relying on this article should therefore check their own holdings in their own account in any case.

Checking the KuCoin deadline: what to take away

1. Look into your account today. Match your holdings against the list of 25 tokens from the announcement, not against the overview page — 15 of them were missing there on September 8. If you find a position, start the withdrawal immediately rather than shortly before October 7. If you are thinking about switching anyway while you are at it: our overview of regulated crypto exchanges sets out who is authorised in the EU.
2. Set up the destination before you withdraw. You need an address on the matching network whose keys you hold yourself. For smaller amounts a vetted software solution from our software wallet comparison is enough; for anything that would hurt if it were gone, keeping it off the network still applies.
3. Secure the records before the withdrawal. Download the transaction history for every affected token while it is still in the interface. A tool that carries acquisition dates and holding periods forward permanently takes that off your hands later — the common providers are in our comparison of crypto tax tools.

(As of September 8, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Prices and fee structures change; check the terms with the provider before you buy.)