TL;DR
- Binance will transfer more than a dozen cryptocurrencies from Alpha Account to Spot Account on April 22.
- Trading bots services for select USDC pairs will go live the same day, though users from some regions won’t have access.
Enforcing Amendments
The world’s largest crypto exchange updates its platform quite frequently to respond to ongoing market trends and enhance user experience.
Most recently, it announced that it will move 17 altcoins from the Binance Alpha Account to the Spot Account. Some of the involved tokens include Ondo (ONDO), Big Time (BIGTIME), Virtuals Protocol (VIRTUAL) as well as the trending meme coins Mubarak (MUBARAK), Broccoli (BROCCOLI), Banana For Scale (BANANAS31), Tutorial (TUT), Cookie DAO (COOKIE), and more.
The transfer is scheduled for April 22, and the company warned that users will not be able to move tokens back to their Alpha Account once it starts.
Binance Alpha is a platform within the exchange’s ecosystem that highlights early-stage cryptocurrency projects with potential for growth and serves as a pre-listing token selection pool.
The firm explained that following the transfer to spot accounts, users will be able to trade, deposit, or withdraw the involved assets via networks supported by the trading venue.
“Some tokens may adopt a different name and/or denomination after transferring to Binance Spot Account,” the entity added.
The exchange has another initiative scheduled for April 22. It will enable trading bot services for the ACH/USDC, GMT/USDC, ALGO/USDC, CRV/USDC, and ENA/USDC pairs.
The upcoming services will not be available to all users. Clients residing in Canada, Cuba, Iran, the Netherlands, Syria, the USA, and others are among the excluded ones.
Other Recent Updates
Earlier this month, Binance held a community vote to ask its user base which tokens they believe should not be on the platform.
The results revealed that FTX’s FTT topped the list as the least favored cryptocurrency among voters, collecting 11.1% of the total votes. Zcash (ZEC) and JasmyCoin (JASMY) trailed behind with 8.6% each.
It is important to note that the poll results are not the sole factor in deciding whether to delist a token. Regardless, the voting outcome triggered a price decline for some of the aforementioned tokens, with FTT dropping by 4% on a daily scale.
History shows that actual delistings from Binance can lead to devastating losses for the involved cryptocurrencies. Such was the case with CREAM, BETA, BAL, BADGER, and many more, which crashed by double digits at the start of the month when the exchange withdrew its support.