Binance announced it completed adjustments to the tick size for selected spot trading pairs by December 18 at 5 a.m. UTC.
According to Binance, the change is a market-structure update intended to support liquidity and execution quality while keeping spot trading functions unchanged. The company said tick-size values shown through its Application Programming Interface (API) will update, directing developers to the Exchange Information endpoint and its API changelog for ongoing details. Binance also said that the update will not affect existing spot orders: orders placed before the change remain matchable using the original tick size after the adjustment, and users running bots should update parameters to avoid unintended order rejections.
The update covers 34 spot pairs quoted in various currencies including USDC, USDT, FDUSD, TRY, EUR, BTC, and BNB. Most minimum price increments have been tightened by a factor of ten. Examples include CGPT/USDT and CVC/USDC changing from 0.0001 to 0.00001, INJ/USDT and INJ/USDC changing from 0.01 to 0.001, and TIA/USDT changing from 0.001 to 0.0001. HMSTR pairs tighten from 0.000001 to 0.0000001 against FDUSD, USDC, and USDT, while XAI/TRY shows the largest change, moving from 0.01 to 0.0001.
Peer-reviewed research on tick-size changes in U.S. equities illustrates why exchanges treat minimum price increments as a meaningful lever: a Journal of Monetary Economics study using the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) tick-size pilot reported statistically significant stock-price declines of roughly 1.75% to 3.2% for certain affected firms versus a control group.
Binance is a global cryptocurrency exchange founded in July 2017 by Changpeng Zhao and Yi He, serving retail and institutional users with spot and derivatives markets and related products.
