Kraken Delists 21 Tokens: Trading End on September 11 Has Passed, Withdrawals Run Until December 10

As of September 30, 2026: what is still possible at Kraken until December 10

Since September 11, 2026 at 14:00 UTC, the 21 tokens can no longer be traded or deposited at Kraken. Only withdrawals remain possible, until December 10, 2026 at 15:00 UTC. Whatever is still in the account after that, Kraken sells itself between December 14 and 18, 2026. That is what Kraken's announcement says, last updated on August 27, 2026. The affected assets are XTER, IR, GAIA, SCA, VANRY, BNC, SBR, RBC, MIR, JUNO, HDX, ACA, MULTI, RIZE, EPT, MAT, CQT, CXT, BKS, VULT and M.

The December liquidation is no substitute for a sale. Kraken itself points out that some of these assets have limited or inactive markets, so the proceeds may be well below the last displayed reference prices and in some cases minimal or zero. Anyone who wants to keep one of the tokens should withdraw it beforehand:

1. Check your balance. The account overview shows whether any of the 21 tokens is still held at Kraken.
2. Choose a destination wallet. It has to support the network Kraken uses to pay out the token.
3. Send a small amount first. Once it arrives, send the rest.

For tax purposes the automatic liquidation is also a sale: if no more than one year lies between purchase and liquidation, a gain counts as a private disposal; how the exemption limit applies is explained further down.

The sections below reflect the situation as of September 3, 2026.

Kraken has pulled 21 cryptocurrencies from trading. Trading and deposits ended on September 11, 2026 at 14:00 UTC, withdrawals remain possible until December 10, 2026 at 15:00 UTC, and whatever is still sitting in the account after that the exchange sells itself between December 14 and 18. Anyone still holding one of these tokens on Kraken therefore has only one window left, the one for withdrawing; the short one for selling has closed.

On September 3 we looked into where a withdrawal could actually lead. The result is the real reason for this article: at none of the three European venues we checked can any of these 21 tokens currently be deposited or traded. Moving to another exchange, the usual reflex in a delisting, leads nowhere here.

What Kraken announced on August 27 and which 21 tokens are affected

The notice carries the date of August 27, 2026 and names the affected assets only by their ticker: XTER, IR, GAIA, SCA, VANRY, BNC, SBR, RBC, MIR, JUNO, HDX, ACA, MULTI, RIZE, EPT, MAT, CQT, CXT, BKS, VULT and M. The exchange does not list full project names in this announcement, which makes identification harder for those affected, because several of these tickers are very short and therefore ambiguous.

The justification is brief. Kraken writes that several of the assets have limited or inactive markets, and attaches to that the warning that a later forced sale may fall considerably below recently observed reference prices. The notice makes no reference to European regulation, and there is no indication that this step has anything to do with MiCA. It is a clean-up of the exchange's own line-up.

Delisting, trading halt and forced liquidation: each term in a single sentence

A delisting is an exchange's decision to remove an asset permanently from its own line-up. A trading halt is the point from which that asset can no longer be bought or sold on the platform, while the balance remains in the account. A forced liquidation is the sale of a remaining balance by the exchange itself, after the withdrawal deadline has passed and the customer has not responded.

At Kraken these three steps run at different times, and that is exactly where the practical trap lies. After September 11 the account looks unchanged: the balance is still there, nothing disappears, and no second warning arrives. Only the sell button is missing.

The three dates: September 11, December 10 and the liquidation week

The first date is the most important, because it forces the one decision for which there is no later substitute. On September 11, 2026 at 14:00 UTC, Kraken switches off trading and deposits for all 21 assets. Anyone who sells by then has euros or dollars in the account and need not worry about anything further.

The second date, December 10, 2026 at 15:00 UTC, ends withdrawals. Until then the balance can be transferred to an address of your own. After that comes the third step: between December 14 and 18 Kraken sells all remaining holdings. The proceeds are credited to the account, but in the same notice the exchange makes clear that because of thin order books they can fall considerably below the most recently quoted prices and in individual cases turn out minimal or zero.

Three months sounds like a lot of time, and it is, as long as the withdrawal works technically. But anyone who only notices in December that the destination address does not fit or that the network is not supported has been without the trading route as a fallback for three months already.

Our September 3 survey: no second trading venue in Europe

This analysis was carried out by cryptoticker.io itself on September 3, 2026. We retrieved the publicly available asset and trading pair directories of four venues and held the 21 tickers from the Kraken notice against them. Kraken itself, Bitvavo, Coinbase and Bitstamp were queried, each retrieval with status code 200. That amounts to 21 tokens checked against 4 venues.

The result is clearer than we had expected. Across Bitvavo, Coinbase and Bitstamp combined, not a single one of the 21 tokens had an active trading or deposit route. Two tickers appear in Bitvavo's directory at all, VANRY and ACA, but both carry the status «delisted» there, for deposits as well as withdrawals. Coinbase lists MIR as Mirror Protocol and MULTI as Multichain, both likewise with the status «delisted». At Bitstamp not a single ticker carries an active trading pair.

That overturns the usual course of action in a delisting. The advice to simply push the holding to another regulated exchange assumes that this exchange accepts the asset. For these 21 assets none of the venues checked does. Anyone reorienting themselves on the choice of trading platform anyway will find the providers available in Germany together with their terms in our comparison of the best crypto exchanges; for the tokens affected here, however, that changes nothing about the situation.

Why a delisting at Bitvavo, Coinbase and Bitstamp blocks the move

A deposit needs an active deposit address on the receiving side. If an asset carries the status delisted at an exchange, it no longer generates that address. Anyone transferring regardless, to an old address from the clipboard for instance, sends their balance to a place where nobody assigns it any more. Such cases regularly end up in support, often without result.

The second point concerns sequence. Even if a platform were to relist one of these assets in future, that no longer helps after December 10, because by then Kraken has closed withdrawals. The question of where the holding should go therefore has to be answered before the December date, and the only answer that depends on no outside decision is your own wallet.

19 of the 21 tokens still have a euro pair, two only a dollar pair

We counted this too on September 3. All 21 assets are still listed as tradable on Kraken at the time of our query, and 19 of them carry a direct trading pair against the euro. There are two exceptions: SCA and RBC are only tradable against the US dollar. Anyone wanting to sell these two therefore goes via the dollar and bears the conversion, which for small holdings shrinks the proceeds further.

The number of trading pairs per asset is consistently low, at one or two pairs. That is the measurable side of what Kraken means by limited or inactive markets: where only one pair exists there is only one order book, and a sell order quickly meets little on the other side.

Sell or withdraw: the decision that was due by September 11

The decision has two routes, and the deadline separates them cleanly. Until September 11 both are open. After that only one remains.

Route one: sell while the order book is open

Anyone who did not want to hold the asset anyway sells it on Kraken before the deadline. With thin order books it is worth setting a limit order rather than a market order and, if necessary, disposing of the holding in parts over several days, because a large market order in an empty book drags your own execution price down.

Route two: withdraw and hold in self-custody

Anyone wanting to stick with the project transfers the holding to an address whose keys they hold themselves. That can be a software wallet or a hardware device; which devices are available in Germany and what distinguishes them is set out in our comparison of hardware wallets. What matters above all is that the wallet really supports the network in question, because several of these tokens run on chains that common wallets do not carry out of the box.

Before the large transfer, a small test amount always belongs sent and confirmed at the destination. That minute costs fees and prevents the mistake that cannot be undone.

Self-custody as the only route left for the 21 tokens

According to our survey, for these 21 assets your own wallet is not one option among several but the only one that reliably works. That has a side effect which belongs with the deadline: a self-custodied token for which there is no longer a regulated trading venue in Europe can be held, but for the time being it can no longer readily be turned into euros. Anyone withdrawing is therefore deliberately choosing a holding with no foreseeable exit.

Nobody can take that weighing-up off your hands, and it comes out differently for a holding of a few euros than for a larger one. For completeness: doing nothing is a decision too, it merely leads to the forced sale in December at a price Kraken itself does not guarantee.

Why the liquidation proceeds can be minimal or zero according to Kraken

The wording comes verbatim from the exchange's notice: the proceeds may fall considerably below recently observed reference prices and in individual cases turn out minimal or zero. That is not rhetorical hedging but the logical consequence of the procedure. In one fixed week in December, Kraken sells all remaining holdings of all affected customers into the same order book that was already described as thin beforehand. Supply and demand are in no balanced relation there.

For the individual investor that means the price a quote portal shows today for one of these tokens says little about what is actually credited in December. Anyone relying on that displayed value and waiting for that reason is planning with a number that no longer holds at the time of execution.

Tax consequences of the forced liquidation: a disposal without your own decision

A forced sale is for tax purposes a sale like any other. Under section 23 of the German Income Tax Act, gains from the sale of cryptocurrencies remain tax-free if more than a year lies between acquisition and disposal; within that period the gain remains tax-free only if all private disposal gains in the calendar year together amount to less than 1,000 euros (exemption threshold); from 1,000 euros the entire gain becomes taxable.

Correction (30 September 2026): An earlier version said the entire gain only becomes taxable once it exceeds 1,000 euros. Under section 23(3) sentence 5 of the German Income Tax Act, total gains from private disposals remain tax-free only if they amount to less than 1,000 euros in the calendar year; from 1,000 euros the entire gain is taxable.

The awkward thing about the forced liquidation is that it dictates the moment of sale. Anyone who bought a token eleven months ago would have reached the one-year mark by waiting; the liquidation in December takes that possibility away. For anyone who passed the deadline long ago, the process is unproblematic for tax purposes. A loss from such a sale can be offset within the same category of income, which given the proceeds to be expected here is likely to be the more common case in practice.

For any of that to be documented at all, the acquisition data is needed. Anyone no longer holding it should export the transaction history from the Kraken account while the account is still complete. Tools that read this data and track the deadlines per position exist both as pure tax programmes and as portfolio trackers with a tax function. This section describes the legal position and does not replace tax advice in an individual case.

Distinguishing this from the August delisting wave: why this is a different list

Kraken has removed assets several times this year, and the dates overlap. Our article of August 14, 2026 on the 56 tokens facing forced liquidation describes three parallel cycles from May, June and July with deadlines on August 27, September 25 and November 6. The list dealt with here is entirely separate from those: none of the 21 tickers from the August 27 notice appears in those cycles.

So anyone who read the earlier article and checked their account at the time is not done with this check. The September 11 and December 10 dates belong to a new announcement, and they concern different assets. This accumulation is itself a finding: anyone holding smaller tokens at an exchange now has to look at its notice page regularly, because a single check is only a snapshot.

How to check your Kraken account for affected tokens in five minutes

The quickest route runs through the account's balance overview. All positions are listed there with their ticker, and comparing them against the list above is a pure text check. What matters is looking at the very small holdings too, the ones that accumulate over the years, because it is precisely those that often sit in exactly these obscure assets.

After that a look at Kraken's own announcement belongs in the process, because that is where any change to the dates would appear. If a position turns up on the list, it comes down to a single question: sell or withdraw. Anyone finding nothing has nothing to do, but should not have to make a note of September 11.

One aside, because it concerns the same account: very small amounts that cannot be explained are not always old holdings from your own purchases. Anyone finding a position on the list they do not remember should take a quick look in the transaction history before selling, to see where it came from.

How we surveyed and what remains open

On method: on September 3, 2026 we called the public interfaces of four trading venues, read out the assets and trading pairs listed there and compared the 21 tickers from the Kraken notice against them automatically. Only disclosures from the venues themselves were evaluated.

Four points we could not settle, and they belong to the honesty of this analysis. First, Bitpanda's directory could not be retrieved, the interface answering with an access block; our survey therefore says nothing about that offering. Second, we deliberately left out decentralised venues, because they place different requirements on the user and cannot sensibly be compared with an exchange account. Third, several of the tickers are very short, such as M, IR, MAT or SCA; an identical ticker at another venue can denote a different project, which is why we treated every hit only as a possible and not as a confirmed match. Fourth, we collected no trading volumes, so on actual market depth we only reproduce what Kraken writes about it itself.

What we did not do: no extrapolation to monetary values, no price figure for any of the tokens, no statement about how many investors are affected. For none of these figures do we have a reliable basis.

Checking the Kraken trading halt: what to take away

1. Compare your account today. Hold the 21 tickers against your own balance overview, very small holdings included. Anyone wanting to switch will find the alternatives in our comparison of crypto exchanges.
2. Withdraw by December 10. Selling was only possible until September 11; since then withdrawing is the only route. The second route needs a wallet that carries the network; the devices are in our hardware wallet comparison.
3. Secure your records before the account empties. Export the transaction history and note the acquisition data, so that the deadline and the gain can be documented later; suitable tools are in our tax and portfolio overview.

(As of September 3, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Prices and fee structures change; check the terms with the provider before you buy.)