CZ Comments on Binance Delistings

Getting a token listed on the world’s largest Centralized Exchange is a milestone achievement for any crypto project, and typically leads to a major boost in market capitalization. But what Binance gives, it can take away.

The recent announcement from Binance that it was delisting several tokens sparked outcries from the projects and responses from Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) himself.

Among the three tokens that were delisted, the most noteworthy might be $AUTO from Autofarm.

The yield aggregator platform was once the largest on BNB Chain and at one point in April 2021 had a peak $2 billion in Total Value Locked, according to DefiLlama. Now its TVL is at $21 million across several chains.

The market cap of $AUTO once reached nearly $200 million in February 2021 but sat below $20 million for most of 2022 and after a sharp decline since the Binance announcement, now is at just above $10 million.

The other tokens losing their Binance listing are $QLC from Kepple (formerly QLC Chain) and $NEBL from Neblio.

The Kepple team reacted to the announcement with dismay, saying they had been waiting on Binance’s due diligence decision “for weeks” as Kepple is swapping the QLC token for KPL.

Kepple managed to bring its concerns to CZ’s attention, exchanging replies on Twitter. CZ said Binance does not pre-notify projects that their tokens are being delisted, but makes the announcement at the same time to all users.

CZ continued on to say that, in Kepple’s case, he was told the project had stopped actively developing and was “ recently “sold” to a different project, which currently do not meet our listing standards.”

Kepple replied that it had not been “sold” but was rebranding, and asked to continue the conversation with CZ in private.

Binance doesn’t typically give reasons why a specific token is being delisted, but in its announcement included the following factors that are considered:

• Commitment of team to project
• Level and quality of development activity
• Trading volume and liquidity
• Stability and safety of network from attacks
• Network / smart contract stability
• Level of public communication
• Responsiveness to our periodic due diligence requests
• Evidence of unethical/fraudulent conduct or negligence
• Contribution to a healthy and sustainable crypto ecosystem.

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