Binance has removed Pax Dollar from its spot market, ending trading in all USDP pairs at 03:00 UTC on September 24 after completing its latest asset review. The exchange has delisted USDP as an asset from spot trading rather than merely removing selected low-volume pairs, while deposits and withdrawals remain available for limited periods during the wind-down. All outstanding spot orders were automatically canceled when trading stopped.
According to the official Binance USDP delisting announcement, the exchange evaluates assets against criteria including trading volume and liquidity, development activity, network security, regulatory requirements, project transparency and responsiveness to due diligence. Binance did not identify one specific criterion as the reason USDP failed its latest review, making it inaccurate to attribute the decision solely to deteriorating liquidity.
USDP Withdrawals Remain Open Until November
The shutdown extends across several Binance services on different schedules. Binance Convert removed USDP and associated pairs at 02:00 UTC on September 24, one hour before spot trading ended, while Trading Bots connected to USDP spot markets terminated at the same 03:00 UTC cutoff. Users can no longer trade USDP on Binance spot, but the asset has not yet reached its withdrawal deadline.
Deposits will stop being credited after September 25 at 03:00 UTC. Withdrawals remain supported until November 24 at 03:00 UTC, giving holders two additional months to move USDP away from the platform. After November 25, Binance may convert remaining balances into stablecoins on users’ behalf, but the exchange explicitly says such conversion is not guaranteed. If conversion is not feasible, Binance says it may keep withdrawals available subject to network conditions.
Margin users faced an earlier cutoff. Binance removed USDP from Cross Margin and Portfolio Margin collateral on September 11, alongside several individual margin pairs. At that stage, affected positions could be closed and automatically settled under Binance’s margin-delisting process. Those automated settlements should not be confused with today’s spot-market removal, where open orders were canceled rather than leveraged spot positions being liquidated.
Binance Continues Reshaping Its Spot Markets
The USDP exit comes while Binance continues adding and removing markets across its trading infrastructure. The exchange has recently introduced new spot trading pairs and separately expanded its equity-linked offering with three new bStock spot markets. Listings and delistings can occur simultaneously as exchanges redistribute liquidity and reassess which assets and order books remain commercially and operationally supportable.
That distinction also separates a complete asset delisting from routine pair consolidation. Other exchanges have recently removed individual trading pairs while retaining support for the underlying tokens. USDP faces a broader Binance withdrawal because spot trading, margin support, Pay, Buy & Sell, Convert and eventually standard withdrawals are all being discontinued, rather than one quote market simply disappearing.
The removal does not imply that USDP itself has ceased operating outside Binance, nor does Binance’s announcement establish a failure of the stablecoin’s underlying reserves or redemption mechanism. The confirmed development is limited to Binance’s decision to discontinue support following its internal listing review. That distinction matters when assessing centralized-exchange changes alongside custody disclosures such as Binance’s recurring proof-of-reserves reporting, which addresses a different question: assets held against customer liabilities.
The next concrete milestone is September 25 at 03:00 UTC, when new USDP deposits will stop being credited. Holders then have until November 24 at 03:00 UTC under the current schedule to withdraw their balances. Users who retain USDP beyond that deadline should not assume an automatic stablecoin conversion will occur, because Binance has expressly left that process discretionary and subject to a separate notification.
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