This BEP describes a proposal for delisting trading pairs from the Binance DEX.
Listing new trading pairs is done via listing proposals. Suppose a token has a crediting issue or one of its trading pairs has little trading volume for a long time, the community might consider to drop related trading pairs to save network cost. This BEP proposes a method to delist trading pairs via governance. The below picture describes the overview of how delist logic works.
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| | | deposit period | | voting period | | cooling-off period | | |
| Submit | | +--------+ | | +-----------+ | | +--------+ | | |
| proposal |<--->| | 2 days | |<---->| | less than | |<---->| | 3 days | |<--->| delist |
| | | +--------+ | | | 14 days | | | +--------+ | | |
| | | | | +-----------+ | | | | |
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This BEP is already implemented.
The purpose of delisting is to prioritise computing resources on healthy assets and provide a way to optimise trading markets on DEX.
The delisting procedure can be divided into three steps:
- Submit and voting on proposal
- Cooling-off period
- Check constraints and expire orders
To delist a trading pair, users submit a DelistTradingPair proposal. If the proposal is passed, then step 2 and 3 will be triggered. If any of the steps fail, all subsequent steps will not be executed.
Firstly, users must propose by specifying which trading pair to delist and the corresponding justification.
| Name | Type | Description | json field |
|---|---|---|---|
| BaseAssetSymbol | string | base asset symbol | base_asset_symbol |
| QuoteAssetSymbol | string | quote asset symbol | quote_asset_symbol |
| Justification | string | the reason to delist trading pair; the maximum length is limited by proposal total length, which is 2048 bytes | justification |
These parameters will be json marshaled to strings and assigned to the Description field.
The DelistTradingPair proposal is similar to a governance proposal. It requires other governance related parameters:
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Title | string | base asset symbol |
| Description | string | Json marshals string of BaseAssetSymbol, QuoteAssetSymbol and Justification |
| ProposalType | string | Type of proposal, here the type should be “DelistTradingPair” |
| Proposer | Bech32_address | Address of the proposer |
| InitialDeposit | coins | Initial deposit paid by sender. Must be strictly positive |
| VotingPeriod | int | Length of the voting period |
For other document about governance proposal, please refer to this page: https://docs.binance.org/governance.html#proposal-parameters
Once a DelistTradingPair proposal is passed, it will enter a cooling-off period. The cooling-off period lasts until the next UTC 00:00 after the 72-hour point of the proposal passing. As the name suggests, users should re-evaluate the market and take action on the proposed asset to be delisted. In this period, users can still create new orders and cancel orders on the trading pair. Once this period has ended, all outstanding orders will expire.
Delisting happens on the next UTC 00:00 after the 72-hour point of the proposal passing. There are 2 steps to delist trading pairs as below.
For Binance Chain, all listed tokens requires BNB as an initial base pair. Suppose there are three tokens on binance chain: A, B and BNB, and there is only one trading pair: A_BNB. If someone wants to create a new A_B trading pair, he must create the B_BNB trading pair first.
In conclusion, a non-BNB trading pair A_B will depend on two other trading pairs: A_BNB and B_BNB, and any BNB related trading pair may be the dependency of other trading pairs.
This constraint is checked before the removal of the trading pair. If the constraint is not satisfied, the trading pair won’t be removed. If the delister still wishes to delist the trading pair, he must propose a new DelistTradingPair proposal on this trading pair again. However, before doing that, the delister must delist all dependent trading pairs first.
Once the trading pair constraint check has been passed, the clearance operation will be triggered and all related outstanding orders will expire. The locked tokens in the orders will be refunded to users and order expiration fee will be charged.
After these 2 steps, the trading pair will be removed. The delisting process is complete.
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