Binance Customer Support said AKE, also known as AKEDO, experienced extreme volatility on Sept. 3, 2026, at about 05:44 UTC+8, and that its pricing, risk-control and liquidation systems operated normally. The exchange does not list AKE for spot trading, so the AKEUSDT perpetual contract uses a mark price derived from multiple external spot markets and on-chain data rather than Binance's own order book. A trader alleges that more than 30 funding-rate arbitrage positions were liquidated, causing losses of more than 5 million USDT, and argues that the move reflected coordinated activity or a short squeeze. Binance attributed the liquidations to market conditions and rejected claims of a platform malfunction. Public aggregate spot data showed heavy volatility but a peak below the nearly $0.045 contract price cited by the trader, leaving the difference unresolved. The trader has requested transaction records, liquidation details and risk-control logs. Binance has not announced compensation, and no regulator or independent investigator has publicly found that market manipulation occurred.