Binance Flags 9 Tokens With Monitoring Tag Over Compliance Risks

• Monitoring Tag has been added to COS, DEGO, FORTH, FUN, HOOK, LRC, MBOX, OXT, and WIF.
• The label was removed from FLOW, while the Seed Tag was dropped from ONDO and VIRTUAL.
• If tokens stop meeting Binance’s standards, they could get kicked off the exchange.

The world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, has added a Monitoring Tag to nine tokens, indicating they could be delisted if they fail to meet Binance’s standards.

According to Binance’s official announcement, the following tokens were placed under the Monitoring Tag: Contentos (COS), Dego Finance (DEGO), Ampleforth Governance Token (FORTH), FUNToken (FUN), Hooked Protocol (HOOK), Loopring (LRC), MOBOX (MBOX), Orchid (OXT), and dogwifhat (WIF).

At the same time, Binance removed the Monitoring Tag from FLOW and dropped the Seed Tag from ONDO and VIRTUAL, meaning those projects just passed their latest checks.

A Monitoring Tag on Binance basically means the token is riskier or more volatile than most, and that the exchange is keeping a closer eye on it.

Tokens with this tag get checked more often. If they stop meeting Binance’s standards, they could get kicked off the exchange. Any users wanting to trade these tokens will need to pass a quick risk quiz every 90 days and agree to additional warnings that appear on the platform.

Binance says it evaluates projects on a bunch of things, including:

• How active the devs are
• Trading volume and liquidity
• Network security and uptime
• Whether they respond to compliance requests
• Any shady behavior or negligence
• What they’re bringing to the broader crypto space

If the project fails to maintain the above for any reason, Binance can pull it entirely, which usually sends prices crashing as liquidity dries up.

Possible Volatility

News like this usually shakes things up in the short term. In the past, tokens that land on exchange watchlists tend to swing hard as traders try to guess whether they’ll get the boot. Similar cases in the past have triggered double-digit drops right after the announcement.

For instance, in October 2025, Binance added the Monitoring Tag to Wanchain (WAN), and shortly after, the token dropped over 30% in price.

Generally speaking, this seems to be a part of a bigger shift in the crypto industry as of late. Top exchanges are getting tougher about weeding out weak or risky tokens as regulators keep turning up the heat on the industry.

Over the last year, exchanges like Binance have been regularly updating their watchlists and dropping trading pairs to keep markets clean and users safer. How the future will look for these nine tokens is yet to be seen.

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