Kraken Delists 56 Tokens, Forced Liquidation Starts Aug 27

Kraken is running a staggered delisting process that ends with the exchange selling on your behalf. Any balance not withdrawn by the relevant cut-off date is liquidated automatically. A count of the official notices in Kraken's support pages shows 56 cryptocurrencies affected across three cycles running in parallel.

The next hard deadline falls on August 27, 2026 at 14:00 UTC. From that point, 21 of these tokens can no longer be withdrawn from Kraken. Whatever remains in the account is sold by the exchange itself between September 1 and September 5. The same notice warns that this may produce little or no proceeds at all.

This analysis was compiled by cryptoticker.io on August 11, 2026. The method: all four dated cycle notices published in 2026 were retrieved individually from the delisting overview in Kraken's support section. Their token lists and deadlines were counted, 63 token entries in total. What could not be verified is how many customer balances are affected and whether individual countries have different dates, since Kraken maintains separate support sections for each market.

Kraken announces delistings in cycles, each named after the month of the notice. The sequence has been identical throughout 2026 and consists of three stages spread far apart in time. In the first stage, the exchange switches off trading and deposits for the affected assets. The token remains visible in the account but can neither be bought nor sold. In the second stage, usually around three months later, withdrawals are closed. That is the deadline that matters, because from that moment the balance can no longer leave the platform. The third stage is a window of a few days in which Kraken sells the remaining balances at its own discretion and credits the proceeds.

Kraken gives the same reason every time: these are assets that no longer meet the firm's internal performance or compliance standards. There is no individual justification for each token, nor any procedure through which a delisting could be challenged.

The cycle with the nearest deadline was published on May 14, 2026. Trading and deposits were switched off on May 29 at 14:00 UTC. Withdrawals close on August 27 at 14:00 UTC. Kraken liquidates the remaining balances from September 1 to September 5. These 21 assets are affected: TEER, MNW, GFT, BZRX, RLY, DEXTF, LMWR, FARM, VELO, DHT, DIMO, STND, PNT, KINE, L1Q, SURE, CONV, SOV, MPL, PLA, and XNO.

Kraken points out that some of these assets were already untradeable in any case. The trading schedule does not apply to them, while all other dates remain unchanged. So even if one of these tokens has been sitting in your account as a dead balance for months, you still need to act before August 27.

The next cycle followed on June 18 with fourteen assets: TITCOIN, MXC, TOKE, ASRR, ART, UNITE, TANSSI, MIRROR, SOGNI, ALMANAK, VERSE, XRT, RETARDIO, and RAVE. Trading and deposits ended here on June 29 at 14:00 UTC. For the withdrawal deadline, the notice gives September 25, 2026 at 14:00 UTC, with the liquidation window falling between September 28 and October 2. Anyone holding these tokens still has a good six weeks, but should not push the date to the final hour: withdrawals on small networks tend to take longer than on Bitcoin.

The most recent cycle dates from July 28 and has just entered its first stage. Since August 10, 2026 at 14:00 UTC, trading and deposits have been switched off for SIDEKICK, AI3, LOCKIN, SLAY, MNGO, GHIBLI, HOUSE, ACX, OMNI, KP3R, KIN, NTRN, KOBAN, HIPPO, CLV, WEN, KEY, YALA, TREMP, ESX, and U2U. Anyone holding one of these assets has been unable to sell it on Kraken since yesterday. Withdrawals stay open until November 6, 2026 at 14:00 UTC, followed by liquidation from November 9 to 13. The long lead time disguises the fact that the decisive option has already gone.

How seriously Kraken takes the final step is clear from the cycle of April 15, 2026, covering seven assets: PLANCK, AIR, MICHI, FLY, ANLOG, TERM, and STRD. Trading and deposits ended on May 1. Withdrawals on July 31 at 14:00 UTC. The liquidation window ran from August 3 to August 7, 2026. That cycle has therefore been completed in full only days ago. Anyone who was late there has had the process carried out for them. The three open cycles follow the same pattern with later dates.

The most important sentence appears in almost identical wording in all four notices and is still frequently overlooked. Kraken writes, in substance, that several of the affected assets have limited or inactive markets. That means liquidation prices could fall well below the reference prices last seen. In some cases only minimal proceeds or none at all may result. This is not boilerplate. A token that has been excluded from trading for months no longer has an active order book on the exchange handling the wind-down. If the pooled residual holdings of all customers then reach the market within a five-day window, supply meets demand that has largely ceased to exist there. The price shown on a market data website comes from other venues and says little about what the settlement will actually yield.

Kraken singles out one asset in its May notice. On TEER it states that the project has ceased operations and that on-chain transactions are not going through. Trading as well as deposits and withdrawals are paused and will remain so. For those affected this is the most awkward situation in the entire process, because the escape route via withdrawal is blocked as well. Anyone holding TEER should nonetheless document the position, exporting the account statement and transaction history before August 27, while the data can still be retrieved in full.

The analysis turned up an inconsistency that can mean a few days' difference for those affected. In the June notice, the schedule gives September 25, 2026 at 14:00 UTC as the end of withdrawals. The explanatory text below it, by contrast, states that withdrawals will no longer be available after September 28. Both statements appear on the same page. Which figure Kraken would apply in case of doubt is not clear from the notice, and no clarification is available to us. The safe reading is the earlier date, September 25 at 14:00 UTC.

The check takes a few minutes and is worth doing even if you believe you hold none of these assets. Small residual balances from airdrops tend to turn up where you least expect them. The original notices are on Kraken's own pages, both for the May cycle with the August 27 deadline and for the July cycle with the November 6 deadline.