Binance Supports Ontology Upgrade, Stops Deposit of NEP5 ONT Tokens

Binance to support Ontology 2.0 upgrades and says it will not further allow NEP5-based ONT deposits.

Listen to article Binance, one of the world's biggest crypto exchanges, has announced on July 5 that it will support the upcoming Ontology 2.0 network upgrade.

Ontology 2.0 will include the integration of a number of community-led upgrades to its MainNet.

Binance says that it will end support of Neo Enhancement Protocol 5-based, or NEP5, ONT tokens deposits.

Any future deposits of NEP5 ONT will not be credited to users' Binance account, it indicates.

Deposits and withdrawals of ONT will be stopped starting July 6 at 9 a.m. UTC. Users will be notified when the Ontology upgraded network becomes stable and deposits and withdrawals are reopened, says Binance.

The Ontology network upgrade will not result in a new token creation and ONG staking rewards for ONT will not be affected.

ONT is the coin and can be used for staking in consensus, whereas ONG is the utility token used for on-chain services.

MainNet ONT started to release ONG as soon as Ontology MainNet went live two years ago.

As Cointelegraph reported previously, Binance recently issued ONT-33D, a token backed 1:1 with ONT coins and hosted on the exchange's blockchain.