Exchange Extends Delisting Across Bots, Copy Trading, Margin and Earn
Bitget will remove 19 USDT spot trading pairs on Sept. 11 in a broader product shutdown that reaches beyond ordinary spot trading, with the exchange also withdrawing affected assets from margin, Simple Earn, trading bots, copy trading, crypto loans and conversion services.
The 19 pairs are VIC/USDT, CESS/USDT, MAK/USDT, VERT/USDT, JELLYJELLY/USDT, FIDA/USDT, BROCCOLI/USDT, ALT/USDT, SATS/USDT, FTT/USDT, BLAST/USDT, BLUR/USDT, WAVES/USDT, BAN/USDT, AIXBT/USDT, RUNE/USDT, EGLD/USDT, LPT/USDT and GRT/USDT.
Spot trading is scheduled to end at 10:00 UTC on Sept. 11, with all unfilled orders automatically canceled. Deposits for the affected assets have already been suspended, while withdrawals will remain available until Dec. 11 at 10:00 UTC, giving users three months to move remaining holdings away from the platform.
Bitget said the removals followed its periodic asset-review process. The exchange assesses listed cryptocurrencies using criteria including trading volume and liquidity, project-team involvement, development activity, network or smart-contract stability, community activity, project responsiveness and potential negligent or unethical behavior.
It did not identify which criteria caused any individual asset to fail the review, meaning the notice does not establish a specific problem with each of the 19 projects.
The operational changes, however, are considerably wider than removing their USDT order books.
All 19 pairs are also being eliminated from Bitget’s spot trading bots. Existing pending bot orders will be canceled and associated assets returned to users’ accounts, while traders will no longer be able to create or publish bots using the affected pairs.
Twelve pairs — FIDA, ALT, FTT, BLAST, BLUR, WAVES, BAN, AIXBT, RUNE, EGLD, LPT and GRT against USDT — are additionally being removed from copy trading. New positions will no longer be supported and pending orders will be canceled.
Margin users faced an earlier deadline.
Bitget removed FIDA/USDT, ALT/USDT, SATS/USDT, BLAST/USDT, BLUR/USDT, WAVES/USDT, BAN/USDT, AIXBT/USDT, RUNE/USDT, EGLD/USDT, LPT/USDT and GRT/USDT from spot margin trading at 03:00 UTC on Sept. 10. Transfers and new borrowing involving those markets had already been suspended.
For users who had not exited by the deadline, Bitget said it would automatically close remaining positions, cancel outstanding margin orders, liquidate unpaid liabilities and transfer residual assets back into spot accounts.
The same 12 assets are also disappearing from Bitget Simple Earn at 03:00 UTC on Sept. 11. Funds remaining in those Earn products will be redeemed automatically and returned to users’ spot accounts.
GRT faces an additional withdrawal from Bitget’s product ecosystem. The exchange discontinued GRT lending and collateral services through Bitget Crypto Loan at 07:00 UTC on Sept. 10. Outstanding loans using GRT as either debt or collateral were scheduled for automatic liquidation, with remaining principal and collateral returned after liquidation.
Bitget Convert and the exchange’s small-balance conversion feature had already removed all 19 assets and their associated pairs on Sept. 4, the same day the main delisting announcement was published.
Users operating through Bitget’s unified account will also lose support for transferring the affected tokens into that account. Any residual holdings there will instead be moved automatically to the classic spot account after the delisting.
The list is notable for mixing relatively small cryptocurrencies with some established names.
FTT is the former exchange token of collapsed cryptocurrency platform FTX and has lost virtually all of the utility it had when FTX was operating. The token recently traded around $0.22, compared with an all-time high above $85, while FTX’s bankruptcy process continues separately from secondary-market trading in FTT.
But the sweep also includes tokens connected to still-operating networks and applications, including The Graph’s GRT, THORChain’s RUNE, MultiversX’s EGLD, Livepeer’s LPT and WAVES. Waves, for example, published a new software release as recently as Aug. 27, showing that Bitget’s delisting list should not be interpreted simply as a collection of abandoned projects.
Bitget itself had temporarily suspended deposits for BLAST, BLUR and WAVES on Sept. 2 for wallet maintenance, only two days before announcing the broader delisting.
The Sept. 11 removal also follows another Bitget cleanup only one week earlier. The exchange delisted DOOD/USDT, MEZO/USDT, IKA/USDT and STORJ/USDT on Sept. 4, applying similar restrictions across spot trading, bots and other associated services.
This Is More Than a Spot-Market Cleanup
A 19-pair delisting initially looks like routine exchange housekeeping. Once the other products are included, the decision becomes much more interesting.
Bitget is not merely turning off an order book.
For several of these assets, it is removing almost every mechanism that makes holding the token useful within its centralized ecosystem: users cannot deposit it, trade it through the affected spot market, borrow against it, use it in margin, earn yield on it, deploy it in bots or copy-trading strategies, or convert small balances through Bitget’s internal conversion system.
Withdrawals are effectively the major service left open.
That creates a very different user incentive. A conventional pair removal might encourage someone to switch from one quote currency to another. Here, the Dec. 11 withdrawal deadline tells holders that Bitget ultimately wants those assets moved off the exchange.
The margin component deserves particular attention because it changes this from an access issue into a position-management event.
Spot holders can decide when to sell or withdraw before the deadline. Leveraged traders who failed to act did not have the same luxury. Bitget explicitly reserved the ability to close positions and liquidate outstanding liabilities automatically. The same applies to GRT borrowers through Crypto Loan.
That means exchange delistings increasingly need to be read as multi-product events rather than simple changes to a token list.
Modern exchanges use the same cryptocurrency across spot markets, collateral systems, lending, automated strategies, yield products and unified accounts. Once an exchange decides an asset no longer satisfies its standards, unwinding that integration can cascade through all of those services.
There is also no obvious single narrative linking the 19 assets themselves.
FTT is the residual token of a failed exchange. BLUR is tied to an operating NFT marketplace. BLAST belongs to an Ethereum Layer 2. RUNE, EGLD, GRT, WAVES and LPT come from long-running blockchain or infrastructure projects.
That diversity makes it risky to interpret the Bitget decision as evidence of fundamental trouble at every project. Bitget gave no asset-by-asset explanation.
A more plausible common denominator is Bitget itself: the exchange is deciding which markets generate enough liquidity, demand and strategic value to justify maintaining all the operational infrastructure around them.
That becomes particularly relevant as Bitget shifts resources toward its broader “Universal Exchange” strategy. During 2026, the company has been aggressively expanding tokenized equities, stock products, commodities and other traditional-market instruments alongside crypto. Its August report highlighted further development in tokenized equities, CFDs and institutional trading infrastructure.
Every supported token carries a maintenance cost — wallets, deposits and withdrawals, risk parameters, lending markets, margin rules, Earn integrations, surveillance and customer support.
The Sept. 11 sweep therefore looks less like 19 isolated trading-pair deletions and more like portfolio rationalization.
For holders of smaller altcoins, that distinction matters. The most meaningful warning sign may no longer be when an exchange announces that spot trading will end. It may be when the asset quietly disappears, one service at a time, from everything else the exchange offers.
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