Coinbase Delisting on August 26: Ten Perpetual Futures Go, Open Positions Are Settled

Coinbase is withdrawing ten perpetual futures from trading on August 26, 2026. The contracts affected are those on Memecoin (MEME), The Sandbox (SAND), Moonbirds (BIRB), Blur (BLUR), Katana (KAT), SPX6900 (SPX), Zora (ZORA), Axie Infinity (AXS), Gensyn (AI) and LayerZero (ZRO). Anyone who leaves a position open does not sell it themselves: Coinbase settles it automatically, at an average price taken from the final hour of trading. Close it yourself and you set the price; wait and it is assigned to you. That is the whole difference, and on a thinly traded contract it decides real money. The delisting is part of a series. In June, Coinbase ended six perpetual futures in the same way, and nine more follow on September 3. The procedure is therefore not an isolated case but a recurring part of an exchange's product maintenance. Anyone trading derivatives should have understood the process once, rather than learning it the first time round on their own account. Coinbase Delisting on August 26: These Ten Perpetual Futures Are Going According to the announcement, which several industry outlets reproduce consistently, trading ends in ten perpetual contracts. These are without exception smal...