Bitvavo Drops ICX on 2 October: The Forced Euro Conversion Follows on 12 October

ICX disappears from Bitvavo on Friday, 2 October 2026. Anyone who does nothing until then will not lose the coins, but will lose the decision over when they are sold: Bitvavo converts every remaining balance into euros automatically, by Monday 12 October at the latest. All the room for manoeuvre sits between those two dates, and it is tighter than the ten days between them suggest. The exchange published the timetable on 29 September in its help centre. It names three times on a single day and a cut-off date ten days later. After that, ICON, as the project behind the ICX ticker is called, is history on this platform. The full record of your ICX purchases stays visible in the account; the balance itself then exists there only as a euro amount. This piece sorts out what actually happens on 2 October, what a withdrawal to your own wallet costs, why that withdrawal only has somewhere to go until the end of the year, and which tax side effect the forced sale on 12 October triggers. Bitvavo staggers the shutdown across three hours. The entrance closes first, then trading, and the exit last. The order matters, because it determines which action you can still take at which point. Friday 2 ...