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OKX has introduced the OKX AI Builder Program, letting developers and AI agents earn from trading volume they generate. Builders use the Agent Trade Kit (or their own stack) and attach a Builder Code to orders; approved builds earn 35% of net trading fees, rising to 50% for invited builders.
OKX has listed $XDP, the token of Doppler Finance (@doppler_fi), on its global Spot markets. Doppler is building infrastructure for tokenized capital markets spanning yield, collateral utility, and tokenized real-world assets.
The listing continues OKX's run of spot additions tied to RWA-focused infrastructure projects.
OKX is promoting its Future Grid and Future DCA bots, telling users to pick a ready-made bot preset that fits their market view, customise the rules, and get it running in a few taps. The campaign links to OKX's bot documentation pages with full terms and conditions.
OKX's Smart Portfolio bot got an upgrade, now able to combine crypto, tokenized stocks, gold, ETFs, and stablecoins into a single automated portfolio. Users pick a theme or set their own asset mix and allocations, letting the bot handle the ongoing management of the portfolio.
OKX has launched 100 tokenized stocks for European traders via The New Money App, available around the clock outside traditional market hours. Each asset trades on a unified order book, consolidating liquidity for the tokenized equities, while holders receive dividend-equivalent payments on the real-world assets. OKX is walking users through getting started with a tutorial alongside the rollout.
OKX's latest "Trending this week" recap bundles several launches on The New Money App: OKX Shield launched in Europe, new trading bots in the EU, $KII on global Perps and $OURA Pre-IPO listings, plus 3 tokenized stocks and 17 X-Perps pairs added. OKX Now in Singapore is teased as "coming soon."
The recap is a single clearinghouse of the week's additions, spanning the European Shield protection program, automated perps trading, new perpetual and pre-IPO listings, and the Oct 6 Singapore event.
OKX now lets users choose to receive their USDG weekly APY rewards in either USDG or Bitcoin — same yield, with the payout denomination up to them. "Stables or sats," the exchange says: holders pick which asset stacks each week's payout. Holding USDG in an OKX account earns up to 3.5% APY, or up to 4.1% APY for VIPs, with the reward-denomination choice applied to weekly payouts.
OKX has added $KII — the token of @KiiChainio, a blockchain positioned as an on-chain FX layer for stablecoins and real-world assets in emerging markets — to its global Perpetual Futures markets. KIIUSDT perpetual trading is now live on The New Money App.
OKX announced OKX Now, a live event launching on October 6th that showcases the products shaping how users trade, move money, and build on the exchange. Attendees will hear from the people behind it and see the product suite in action.
OKX is running a giveaway for an exclusive Race Weekend Experience, with entry via liking and quote-retweeting the announcement.
OKX has launched OKX Shield across Europe, a protection program billed as the region's new standard for crypto customer safeguards. Shield offers compensation up to €100,000, rising to €500,000 for VIPs — framed as added protection on top of the exchange's existing security measures.
Intercontinental Exchange, parent of the NYSE, invested in OKX, pushing its valuation to roughly US$25 billion.
Attackers upgraded a deprecated OKX DEX proxy contract to a malicious version via a compromised proxy-admin private key, draining over $2.7 million in tokens. OKX later removed the compromised proxy from its trusted list and offered compensation.
OKX received a provisional virtual asset license in Dubai in July 2022, allowing it to offer certain products and services to investors in the UAE.
The company formally renamed from OKEx to OKX in January 2022, introducing new branding and a broader product strategy.
Facing new Chinese crypto regulations, OKX (initially headquartered in Beijing) announced it would cease service to Mainland China customers; its founding team subsequently relocated.
OKEx said withdrawals would resume on or before November 27, 2020, ending the roughly one-month suspension.
OKEx (now OKX) temporarily halted withdrawals on October 16, 2020 while founder Star Xu cooperated with a Chinese police investigation.
A trader who bought bitcoin futures on margin with a ~$416 million notional value was force-liquidated; OKEx injected ~2,500 BTC into an insurance fund and imposed a 17% "socialized clawback" on profitable traders to cover the shortfall.
Star Xu's crypto exchange, started as Okcoin in 2013, expanded internationally and launched as OKEx in 2017 in Hong Kong.