Kraken is running a staggered delisting process that ends with the exchange selling on your behalf: any balance not withdrawn by the relevant cut-off date is liquidated automatically.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 From that point, 21 of these tokens can no longer be withdrawn from Kraken.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, and 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. Method: all four dated cycle notices published in 2026 were retrieved individually from the delisting overview in Kraken’s support section, and 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.
How a Kraken delisting works: trading halt, withdrawal deadline, forced liquidation
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.
First deadline on August 27, 2026: 21 tokens from the May cycle
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, and Kraken liquidates the remaining balances from September 1 to September 5. These 21 assets are affected:
- AURA, BIT, BOND, BSX, FARM
- GARI, K, KET, KINTO, LOBO
- MOON, MV, NYM, RAIIN, RHEA
- SAROS, SDN, SPC, SPICE, TEA, TEER
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.
Second deadline on September 25, 2026: 14 tokens from the June cycle
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.
Third deadline on November 6, 2026: 21 tokens from the July cycle, trading halted since August 10
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.
The April cycle shows that forced liquidation is not a threat scenario
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, and 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.
Why liquidation proceeds can be minimal or zero: thin order books
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, which means liquidation prices could fall well below the reference prices last seen, and that 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.
That produces an order of preference. While trading is still open, selling through the order book is the controlled option. Once it is halted, what remains is a withdrawal to your own address or to an exchange that still lists the asset; we have compared the devices suited to self-custody in our hardware wallet comparison. Liquidation comes only after that, and there the timing is no longer the investor’s to choose.
TEER as a special case: project wound down, on-chain transactions do not go through
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.
What the Kraken delisting has to do with MiCA, and what it does not
Since the MiCA transition periods expired in mid-2026, it is tempting to assume European regulation lies behind every delisting. At Kraken, the notices do not support that reading: the reason given is the exchange’s internal performance and compliance standards, not a supervisory requirement, and the cycles have continued at the same rhythm for months.
The distinction matters in practice. When Revolut dropped the stablecoin $USDT, the trigger was a European legal framework that applies equally to every licensed provider; we described the case in our article on the $USDT delisting at Revolut. An in-house quality cycle hits different assets at every exchange, which is why a token dropped by Kraken may well keep trading elsewhere. For holders, that is the opening to rescue the position rather than write it off.
Tax consequences of a forced liquidation: a disposal without your own decision
For tax purposes, a forced liquidation is a sale like any other, and the fact that the exchange sets the timing changes nothing. For crypto assets held as private assets, the framework of Section 23 of the German Income Tax Act applies: after a holding period of more than one year the gain is tax-free, below that it counts as a private disposal transaction and remains untaxed only if total gains from such transactions stay below the 1,000 euro threshold in the calendar year.
With the assets involved here, the opposite case is likely to be more common, namely a loss. Losses from private disposal transactions can only be offset against gains of the same kind, though they can be carried back and carried forward without a time limit. That presupposes the transaction appears in the tax return at all. This is precisely where the risk lies: a liquidation carried out without the investor’s involvement easily ends up in no record, because nobody remembers it as something they did.
What you should keep for this
It makes sense to export the transaction history before the cut-off date, along with the liquidation statement as soon as it appears in the account. Together the two document the acquisition date, the acquisition cost and the proceeds. Anyone using several exchanges is better served by a portfolio and tax tool than by spreadsheets.
Contradiction in Kraken’s own June notice: September 25 or 28?
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.
How to check your Kraken account for affected tokens
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.
- Open your balance overview and set it to display even very small positions; many interfaces hide minimal holdings by default.
- Compare the ticker symbols against the three lists above. Watch out for ambiguous symbols such as K, ART or KEY, which are easily confused with other assets.
- If you find a match from the May cycle, first check whether trading is still available to you. If it is, selling through the order book is the controlled route.
- If trading is blocked, set up a withdrawal to a wallet whose keys you hold yourself, or to an exchange that still lists the asset. Check the network beforehand and, for larger amounts, test with a small amount first.
- Finally, export the transaction history and file it with your tax records.
Where a provider closes the account entirely rather than dropping individual assets, somewhat different rules apply; we covered that separately when looking at what to do when a crypto exchange shuts down. What stands out is less the individual case than the pace: four cycles in four months, 63 assets in total, each time with the same general justification. A simple habit helps here: review the status pages of the providers you use once a quarter. Delistings are usually announced there weeks before the first stage, while trading is still open.
Checking your Kraken delisting exposure: what to take away
- Check your Kraken account before August 27, 2026, 14:00 UTC. If you hold an asset from the May cycle, sell it while that is still possible, or withdraw it. If you switch exchanges in the process, compare the providers holding European authorisation in our overview of regulated crypto exchanges.
- Put the two later cut-off dates in your calendar now. September 25 applies to the June cycle, November 6 to the July cycle. Where affected assets can still be traded is shown in our crypto exchange comparison.
- Document every step for your tax return. A forced liquidation is a disposal too, and a loss is only useful to you if it is recorded. Suitable tools are listed in our overview of crypto tax tools and portfolio trackers.
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.
(As of August 11, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Prices and fee structures change; check the terms with the provider before you buy.)
