Binance to Adjust Leverage and Margin for 14 USDT-Margined Perpetual Contracts
Binance will update the leverage and margin tiers for 14 USDT-margined perpetual contracts on 2 October 2026 at 14:30 Beijing time. The affected contracts are MOVEUSDT, EPICUSDT, AWEUSDT, SOPHUSDT, AVAUSDT, ARKUSDT, RAVEUSDT, UAIUSDT, BLURUSDT, VELODROMEUSDT, MOVRUSDT, B2USDT, LSKUSDT and ONEUSDT. Binance expects the update to be completed within one hour. Existing positions opened before the update will also be affected. Traders should review the revised leverage and maintenance-margin tiers, as changes may increase margin requirements, reduce available leverage or raise the risk of forced liquidation. The announcement does not specify the new tier parameters.
Neutral
The market impact is neutral because Binance announced a risk-control and contract-parameter adjustment rather than a directional market event. In the short term, the affected tokens may experience higher volatility as traders reduce positions, add collateral or close leveraged trades before the update. If margin requirements rise or maximum leverage falls, open interest and liquidity in these contracts could decline, while liquidation risk could increase for under-margined positions. Similar Binance leverage and margin-tier revisions have typically produced concentrated price and volume changes in the named contracts, but limited spillover into the wider crypto market. The absence of the new parameters makes the immediate price effect difficult to assess. Over the longer term, the update may improve derivatives-market risk management and reduce excessive leverage, although it could also lower trading activity in the affected contracts. Traders should monitor Binance’s final tier tables, open interest, funding rates, liquidation data and spot-market liquidity before adjusting positions.