Update, 30.10.2026: after this article was published, a team identifying itself as SuperEx contacted us, disputing the story and requesting removal. We don't remove documented reports of public complaints — we publish responses. Their delisting announcement is real, and it matches the dates in their letter exactly. What it doesn't match is the $20 fee the story is about. SuperEx's response is included below.

On September 25, 2026, a Bitcointalk user going by sea2027 shared a story about a nasty experience with the SuperEx exchange. Earlier in 2026 he'd bought a few thousand USDT worth of LKY (Luckycoin) on there. Then the exchange delisted the coin — and that's when things got weird, at least by his account.

The timeline here matters. According to SuperEx's own announcement, published June 2, 2026, LKY/USDT was delisted on June 10, 2026, at 10:00 (UTC). By the exchange's own policy, delisted coins can be withdrawn within 90 days. sea2027 says he contacted support almost right after the delisting — that is, well inside the standard withdrawal window. Silence for a while, and then, he says, came a strange demand: deposit $20 in USDT as a "withdrawal fee" and send over an agreement to get the withdrawal process going. He did both — and the exchange just stopped responding, he says. His emails went unanswered for months. By the time he posted, the 90-day window had already quietly closed (it ended around September 8).

As sea2027 rightly put it: they could've at least been honest and said something like "sorry, the withdrawal is technically impossible because the revived LKY is junk". Instead — pure radio silence.

The commenters quickly weighed in. User Rikafip admitted he'd never heard of Superex or LuckyCoin, and pointed out the author's main mistake: keeping coins on an exchange instead of pulling them out to his own wallet right away. Centralized exchanges aren't banks, and when everything goes south, there's very little you can do. In his view, demanding extra money just for a chance to withdraw your own funds is classic behavior for the most obvious scam exchanges.

Slow death did a little digging of his own. He found the exchange listed on CoinMarketCap with a daily volume of 42,535 BTC — a suspiciously huge figure, he argued, for an exchange almost nobody's ever heard of. The place had been mentioned back in 2022, four years before the incident, but there's no announcement thread on the forum, and user comments are few and far between — which, in his words, smells like fake volume. On top of that, he counted 11 scam accusations against the exchange on Trustpilot, some dating back to 2023 and still unanswered. His verdict: ten minutes of research before using an exchange, and the author wouldn't have ended up in this mess.

tabas noticed a visual detail: the SuperEx logo bears a striking resemblance to Binance's, just brighter. He also asked the author whether he'd ever had a single successful withdrawal from the exchange, and summed it up: demanding payment to withdraw a delisted coin is, in his view, a dead giveaway that a scam is in the works.

The most curious — and the most speculative — observation belongs to logfiles. Here is his comment, verbatim:

I just checked their "p2p" section and guess which currency has the most orders/offers?
All other currencies including the USD have no orders. Something tells me the person behind the exchange might be one of those Nigerian scammers and is possible targeting his local people using their fiat currency.

To be clear: the P2P observation is his, we haven't re-checked it ourselves, and the "who's behind the exchange" part is logfiles personal guess, not a fact and not our claim.

RGBTC added a pragmatic take: SuperEx is a small platform, and squeezing $20 out of users is a perfectly logical business for it. Delist a few coins a week, and a decent income starts piling up. His point isn't as outlandish as it may sound: SuperEx's June announcement alone removes 43 trading pairs — 18 of them in a single batch on June 10, LKY among them. He also threw out a rhetorical question — is it worth giving up extra money just to withdraw a dying altcoin? — and attached a link to Luckycoin's CoinMarketCap page.

What SuperEx says

In response to our coverage, a team identifying itself as SuperEx wrote that LKY/USDT was officially delisted on June 10, 2026, at 10:00 (UTC), with an advance announcement on June 2, that "SuperEx provides a 90-day withdrawal period after token delisting" and that once this period expires, "additional manual asset recovery or withdrawal processing may involve network gas fees and associated processing costs". On the $20, their letter states: "The 20 USDT fee referenced in the article relates to the processing of a delisted token withdrawal request. Such a fee does not, by itself, constitute evidence of fraud" adding that "SuperEx has never intended to misappropriate users assets". They linked their official delisting announcement, which you can read here.

We checked that announcement. It's real: titled "Announcement on the Delisting of Certain Trading Pairs (June)", signed "SuperEx Team, June 2, 2026", it lists LKY/USDT among 18 spot pairs removed on June 10 at 10:00 (UTC) — exactly as their letter says — and confirms the 90-day window: "withdrawal services will remain available for 90 days". So far, so standard.

Here's what the announcement doesn't contain: any fee. Not 20 USDT, not any other charge for withdrawing a delisted token. The only fee it mentions anywhere is a network fee for returning mistakenly re-deposited tokens to their original on-chain address — a different situation entirely. We also went through SuperEx's published fee schedule — spot, futures, and deposit/withdrawal tabs: trading commissions and VIP-tier rates, with no entry for LKY at all and nothing remotely resembling a flat 20 USDT delisted-token charge. As things stand, the demand sea2027 describes has no basis in SuperEx's own published delisting policy.

There's also a timeline problem with the "manual recovery" explanation. That framing fits requests made after the 90-day window closes. If sea2027 contacted support within days of the June 10 delisting, as he says, his request fell squarely inside the period during which, by SuperEx's own policy, assets "can be withdrawn" normally. Those two things don't fit together — and to date, SuperEx has not explained what happened to his 20 USDT or his LKY. For what it's worth, the same announcement reserves SuperEx the right to "amend, modify, or cancel this announcement at any time and for any reason at its sole discretion" — one way of saying the rules you read today may not be the rules that apply tomorrow.

sea2027's story remains a textbook example of two classic mistakes at once. The first: keeping purchased coins on a small centralized exchange — once a coin gets delisted, your funds are effectively held hostage by the platform. The second: believing in a "withdrawal fee" paid upfront — the money's gone, the process never started, and support vanished into thin air. The thread is yet another "not your keys, not your coins" reminder: move your coins to your own wallet right after buying, and before using an exchange you've never heard of, spend those same ten minutes checking its reputation.