Binance will remove Epic Chain (EPIC) and QuickSwap (QUICK) from its spot markets on October 28 at 03:00 UTC, the exchange said in a notice published October 14. Both tokens fell sharply within hours of the announcement. QuickSwap traded at approximately $0.008196, down 19% over 24 hours, according to CoinGecko data, with its market cap slipping to around $5.38 million and daily trading volume near $1.76 million.
Epic Chain held up somewhat better, trading near $0.3696, down 15.8% over 24 hours, with a market cap around $12.51 million and daily volume of $11.86 million.
Binance said its decision followed a periodic review against a set of standard criteria, including development activity, trading volume and liquidity, network security, community engagement, and responsiveness to due diligence requests. The exchange did not specify which factors applied to EPIC or QUICK individually, following its usual practice of listing the full criteria set without attributing specific failures to specific tokens.
What happens to each product before the deadline
The delisting touches far more than spot trading, and the shutdown rolls out in stages rather than all at once. Binance Buy & Sell Crypto drops both tokens first, on October 15 at 03:00 UTC, just a day after the announcement. Margin borrowing on EPIC and QUICK pairs gets suspended October 15 at 06:00 UTC, ahead of a full margin delisting on October 20 at 10:00 UTC, when cross, isolated, and portfolio margin positions close out and any remaining collateral or liabilities get settled automatically.
Futures contracts close and settle on October 20 at 09:00 UTC, with new position openings blocked starting 30 minutes earlier. The same day, Binance Pool stops mining support for both tokens and VIP and Flexible Loans close out any open positions using EPIC or QUICK as collateral or loan assets. Spot Copy Trading drops the pairs on October 21, when any unsellable holdings get force-sold at market price or shifted into users' Spot Accounts. Simple Earn follows with automatic redemptions after October 21 at 07:00 UTC.
Deposits stop being credited after October 29, and withdrawals remain open until December 28, giving holders a two-month window to move funds off the exchange. After December 29, Binance may convert any remaining token balances into stablecoins on users' behalf, though the exchange notes this conversion "is not guaranteed."
Why liquidity thins out fast once a major exchange exits
Binance is the largest crypto exchange by trading volume, and a delisting there typically removes a meaningful share of a smaller token's total liquidity in one move.
QuickSwap itself runs as a decentralized exchange built on Polygon, originally forked from Uniswap's code in 2020, and has positioned itself as one of the larger DEX platforms on that network through multiple market cycles. Neither project issued a public statement addressing the Binance delisting as of this writing.
Binance runs these reviews on a recurring basis, and EPIC and QUICK joined a growing list of tokens the exchange has dropped through 2026 after reassessing trading volume, development pace, and project transparency. The exchange's notice reminded users that trading bots tied to the two tokens need to be canceled manually before the cutoff, since Binance does not guarantee against losses tied to automated strategies left running through a delisting window.
Gunel Ismayilova
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