OKX delists ICX, STORJ and ELF: by when you have to trade or withdraw

OKX is removing five crypto assets from trading: DORA, ICX, STORJ, ZEUS and ELF. If one of them sits in your OKX account, one date matters above all, and it is not the one in the headline of the exchange’s notice. On September 30, 2026 at 08:00 UTC, that is 10:00 in central European summer time, the euro pairs ICX/EUR, STORJ/EUR and ELF/EUR come to an end. After that you can only sell via USDT, and even that only until October 3. You can withdraw for longer, until December 23, 2026. Anyone who does nothing at all will be left at the end of the year with a balance that can neither be traded nor paid out. A delisting is the removal of a trading pair from an exchange: the pair disappears from the order book, the token itself continues to exist. That distinction alone decides whether you have to sell or merely to move. This piece sorts out the four deadlines, uses our own measurement of the order book to show why a hurried sale in the euro pair can turn expensive, and explains the tax fork between selling and withdrawing. What OKX announced on September 23, 2026 The exchange published the notice on September 23, 2026 at 10:00 UTC. Five crypto assets and eleven trading pairs are affected. A trading pair is the combination of the token and the currency it is traded against, STORJ against the euro for instance. The same token can run in several pairs at one exchange and be removed from each of them separately. As its reason, OKX states that the affected pairs no longer meet its own listing criteria. In its words, it is removing pairs that “do not fulfill our listing criteria”. Which specific metric was breached the notice does not say, and the exchange does not usually give reasons for individual removals. What can be evidenced is therefore only the fact of the removal along with the dates, not the assessment behind it. These are the pairs affected: On September 30, 2026, 08:00 to 10:00 UTC: ICX/EUR, ICX/USDC, STORJ/EUR, STORJ/USDC, ELF/EUR and ELF/USDC. On October 3, 2026, 08:00 to 10:00 UTC: DORA/USDT, ICX/USDT, STORJ/USDT, ZEUS/USDT and ELF/USDT. The sequence stands out. The euro pairs fall first, the USDT pairs three days later. For the German market that is the unfavourable order, because the euro is the currency most people here settle in. The four key dates of the delisting at a glance The notice carries four dates rather than a single one. These four hit different groups of readers, and three of them sit closer together than the headline suggests.