Bitfinex is giving customers two weeks to pull 13 delisted cryptocurrencies off the exchange before standard withdrawals shut down and a slower, costlier recovery process takes over. The cutoff is 10:00 UTC on Aug. 31, after which any remaining balances in those tokens can only be recovered through a manual process that charges extra fees and has no set timeline.
Which tokens are affected
The list includes Cosmos (ATOM), Bit2Me (B2M), Bitget Token (BGB), EigenLayer (EIGEN), Vaulta (A), GateToken (GT), Jupiter (JUP), Kava (KAVA), Lido (LDO), NEO, Nexo (NEXO), OMNI, and Ultra (UOS). Bitfinex also wants users to clear any NEOGAS balances. Some of these are the native tokens for major ecosystems — Lido's LDO and EigenLayer's EIGEN, for example.
A few assets might show up under alternative interface or API codes. The exchange notes that Cosmos could appear as ATO, and Vaulta as EOS. That's worth checking before you assume you're clear.
What changes after the deadline
Once Aug. 31 passes, standard withdrawal functionality for those tokens is disabled. Any recovery attempt goes through a manual process that Bitfinex handles at its discretion over a two-month window. The catch: recovery isn't guaranteed to succeed, extra fees get deducted from whatever is recovered, and there's no fixed completion timeline.
For users who want to make a normal transfer before the cutoff, there's a $5-equivalent minimum and network fees that vary by asset. The exchange also has a separate liquidation protocol for remaining Japanese yen (JPY) and JPY-PERP balances — those will be automatically converted to USDT with a 5% fee, at an undisclosed time and market rate.
Why this happened
Bitfinex already halted deposits and trading for these tokens in July, after an initial market notice issued on June 23. This withdrawal window is the next step in winding down support. Not everything is affected — Tether (USDT) on Cosmos and Unus Sed LEO on Vaulta remain unaffected, so those don't need to be moved.
The timing is tight for anyone holding these assets. If you're a Bitfinex user with ATOM, LDO, or any of the other listed tokens, the practical move is to initiate a withdrawal now rather than risk the manual recovery route. The 14-day window closes at 10:00 UTC on Aug. 31 — that's the hard date to keep in mind.
