From September 29, 2026, Binance will move its users' crypto balances out of the Funding Account and into the Spot Account. From that day the Funding Account accepts no further on-chain depos
From September 29, 2026, Binance will move its users' crypto balances out of the Funding Account and into the Spot Account. From that day the Funding Account accepts no further on-chain deposits, and in January 2027 it will be renamed "Stocks Account". You do not have to act: anything you have not moved yourself will migrate automatically, in batches, into the Spot Account from January 2027, with no change to your total holdings. Two points sit in the small print of the announcement, though, and they will cost you time or money if you miss them. First, an outdated app version will no longer show your Funding balance at all. Second, standing instructions and recurring orders stop running if they are paid exclusively out of the Funding Account.
For users in Germany the date carries extra weight. Since the MiCA transition period ended on July 1, 2026, Binance has held no European authorisation as a crypto-asset service provider. Anyone with an account here can view and withdraw their balance, but can no longer trade under regular terms. That is precisely the group holding residual balances that need to leave the account at some point, and precisely for them the question of which sub-account this money sits in is now shifting.
The exchange announced the change on September 23, 2026. The stated purpose: the account structure is to become simpler, and the settlement of stocks and stock options is to get an account of its own. Binance has run a US stock trading service since 2026; its settlement will in future be separated from the crypto business.
Two things happen simultaneously on September 29. The Funding Account accepts no further on-chain deposits, and a One-Click Migration button appears in the account, with which you move your crypto holdings into the Spot Account yourself. Deposits and withdrawals for all other crypto assets run exclusively through the Spot Account from that point. The rest is a timetable that runs into January 2027.
The announcement states verbatim that Binance will move users' crypto holdings "starting from 2026-09-29 to January 2027" from Funding Accounts into Spot Accounts, with the exact dates to be announced later. One assurance is in there too: the total value and the security of holdings remain untouched, and historical transaction records keep their original Funding Account label.
Binance runs several sub-accounts with separate balances. The Spot Account is the trading account: whatever sits there can go straight into buy and sell orders. The Funding Account was until now the collecting account for everything alongside that, meaning P2P trades, Binance Pay, gift cards and card payments. The Earn Account holds balances tied up in interest or staking products.
This split explains an observation many users know well: a deposit has arrived, yet it does not appear in the trading window, because it sits in a different sub-account. That duplication is what Binance is now clearing away. After the migration there is only one place where crypto assets come in and go out.
One term recurs throughout the announcement: settlement assets. These are the six currencies in which Binance settles stock transactions, namely USD, USDC, USDT, USD1, U and BNB. These six remain usable in what will then be called the Stocks Account after the renaming, though with one restriction we return to below.
September 29 is only the first of four stages: the changeover runs into January 2027.
The changeover runs over four stages. Anyone with only September 29 in the diary will miss the stages at which something actually falls away.
In between sits a date without a fixed day that matters in practice: the Funding Account will be removed as a payment source before the renaming takes place. Until then, amounts can still be debited from it for payments.
The button appears in the Funding Account from September 29. One press transfers the supported holdings into the Spot Account. It is an internal transfer between two sub-accounts of the same provider, not a transaction on a blockchain: there is no network fee, and there is no recipient address that could be wrong.
Whether you do it yourself or leave it to Binance from January 2027 makes no difference to the total value. It does make a difference to your room for manoeuvre. As long as your balance sits in the Funding Account, it is attached to an account that is being rebuilt and will end up reserved for stock settlement. In the Spot Account it sits where withdrawals leave from anyway. For users in Germany, who may now only withdraw, that is the shorter route.
Anyone taking the holding off the exchange entirely needs somewhere to put it. A wallet of your own removes your dependence on any account structure, but demands that you manage the key material yourself. Anyone wanting to keep trading needs an exchange with European authorisation instead.
This point is the quietest and the most expensive in the whole announcement. The wording: "Users will not see the 'One-Click Migration' feature on older versions of the app, including their assets in Funding Accounts." In plain terms: on an outdated app version, not only the button is missing but the display of the Funding Account holdings as well.
Anyone who has not updated their app for months may therefore see part of their balance vanish from view on September 29 and, in the worst case, assume it is gone. It is not. Binance moves such holdings automatically from January 2027, and the total value stays untouched. The route there still runs through an update: bring the app up to date, then look in the Funding Account to see what is actually in there.
That check is worth doing for a second reason. Many users have no idea they hold anything in the Funding Account at all. Residues from P2P trades, returns from card payments and old gift card amounts accumulate there without ever appearing in the trading window.
From September 29, amounts you receive through Binance Card, gift cards or Binance Pay are credited to the Spot Account. Balances in the future Stocks Account will no longer be debited for payments. Payments can still be debited from the Funding Account for a transitional period, but only until Binance removes it as a payment source.
One consequence of that is spelled out in the announcement: recurring payment plans served solely from the Funding Account will stop executing afterwards. Binance writes that users have to set up new recurring plans with a different payment source. No automatic reminder is given; anyone running such a plan is better off checking it themselves.
A separate rule applies to Binance Alpha 2.0: from September 29, stablecoins for purchases and sales of Alpha tokens are debited from and credited to the Alpha Account on limit orders. Rewards from the liquidity provider programme on limit orders land there too.
With Convert limit orders, meaning conversion orders with a price limit including take-profit and stop-loss variants, amounts already frozen stay frozen in the Funding Account. After September 29, however, these orders settle into the Spot Account. Expired limit orders likewise release their funds there. New limit orders from September 29 freeze exclusively in the Spot Account and settle there.
With recurring orders, meaning repeated purchases of the savings plan type, all orders settle into the Spot Account or the Earn Account from September 29. Refunds on failed orders go to the Spot Account. Binance explicitly asks users to switch the account selection from Funding to Spot so that their plans keep running. Anyone buying regularly therefore has a setting to change.
Anyone running an API connection, whether for a portfolio tool, a tax tracker or a trading bot, has to switch the account reference from Funding to Spot. Leave it as it is and the tool reads out an account that holds nothing after the migration. With tax tools this produces gaps in the history that are laborious to close by hand later on.
For German users, more hangs on the date than an account change: without MiCA authorisation, only withdrawal remains.
The European regulation on markets in crypto-assets, MiCA for short, requires every crypto-asset service provider to hold an authorisation in an EU member state. Binance withdrew its application in Greece and let the transition period pass on July 1, 2026 without a valid authorisation. Existing customers in Germany have since been able to reach their account and balance and to withdraw; regular trading and new deposits are restricted. We described the situation in detail in our piece on switching to a MiCA-regulated exchange, and the obligations the regulation places on providers are set out in our overview of the MiCA duties through 2026.
What follows for you is a very practical order of operations. If your residual balance is due to leave the account anyway, the best approach is to do it in one go: update the app, check the Funding Account, move the holding into the Spot Account, withdraw. Every stage of the migration you wait out only lengthens the route. If you want to keep trading instead, you need a provider with European authorisation; which exchanges hold it and how their fees differ is shown in our comparison of regulated crypto exchanges.
A word of context: the account change is a worldwide measure and not a response to European supervision. Binance gives the separation of stock and crypto settlement as its reason. The changeover hits German users harder only because their room for manoeuvre has shrunk to withdrawal.
After the renaming in January 2027, the Stocks Account serves exclusively to settle stocks and stock options. The six settlement currencies USD, USDC, USDT, USD1, U and BNB can still be used there for stock purchases. Deposits and withdrawals of all other crypto assets run only through the Spot Account.
A practical note on navigating this: these accounts carry English proper names, including in the notices Binance sends to German users. So in the app you are looking for Funding Account, Spot Account, Earn Account and, from January 2027, Stocks Account. For trading between private individuals, a separate P2P Account arrives in December 2026, purchases of Alpha tokens run through the Alpha Account, and the transfer itself is called One-Click Migration. Anyone searching the interface for translated terms will find nothing.
One detail from the accompanying FAQ Binance published on the migration matters: direct deposits and withdrawals to a blockchain are not provided for out of the Stocks Account, not even for these six assets. So anyone wanting to get USDT or BNB out of the Stocks Account first transfers them internally into the Spot Account and withdraws from there. For users in Germany, who may now only withdraw anyway, that is an extra intermediate step better known before you need it.
Trading between private individuals follows its own schedule. From September 29, P2P users with no advert history and no merchant status use the Spot Account as the default source of funds for buy and sell orders, as soon as their app is current. Advertisers continue working with the Funding Account until December 2026, for all P2P activity including posting adverts, merchant deposits and maker and taker orders.
From December 2026, Binance introduces a dedicated P2P account for advertisers and instructs them to move the amounts tied to their adverts there. Adverts that have not moved by January 2027 are closed automatically. Anyone based in Germany is barely affected, because P2P trading here is constrained by the missing authorisation in any case. Anyone running an account from another country has one more deadline to keep.
A transfer between two sub-accounts of the same provider is neither a sale nor a swap. There is no disposal, so no taxable gain arises, and the one-year holding period under section 23 of the German income tax act keeps running. That holds whether you press One-Click Migration yourself or Binance moves the holding automatically from January 2027.
More important than the tax question here is the documentation. Binance writes that historical transaction records from before and after the migration keep their original Funding Account label and are not altered. That helps with reconciliation, but it replaces no record of your own. Pull an export of your transaction history before September 29, while the account structure is still the old one. Tools that read in such histories and track holding periods are in our overview of tax software. This is not tax advice; with larger holdings, settle the individual case with a tax adviser.
The announcement in full is in the Binance notice of September 23, 2026; an independent account of the move comes from crypto.news.
(As of September 25, 2026. This article is not investment advice. Prices and fee structures change; check the terms with the provider before you buy.)
