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The internet democratized publishing. Blockchain democratized asset issuance. Our latest announcement of Exchange OS democratizes market creation. Exchange OS will be a major protocol upgrade on X Layer that will enable builders to deploy spot markets, perpetuals, or outcome markets on the same institutional-grade infrastructure stack powering OKX. The core exchange functions, matching, margining, liquidation, settlement, and risk, sit at the protocol layer, shared by every venue. You control everything above it: your frontend, compliance framework, revenue model, and market structure. For traders: a unified account and margin system across spot, perpetuals, and outcome markets. One pool of capital, expressed across any market type, without splitting balances across platforms. For builders: deploy any market type permissionlessly, run on millisecond matching latency and 300K TPS throughput, within your own risk-isolated group. Partners across trading infrastructure, institutional, DeFi and Web3 are joining the next chapter, including Pyth Network, Chainlink, GSR, Nansen, xStocks and more. The next chapter of onchain finance should not be built by a single platform. It should be built by anyone with a market worth creating. Read our vision: https://www.okx.com/learn/exchange-os

🎉 OKX DEX expands to Pharos @pharos_network To celebrate, we're launching the first-ever Pharos Trading Competition — trade $PROS to win a share of 250K USDC in rewards. Start trading now https://web3.okx.com/ul/lyP2SC

📢 It's finally here! The OKX Orbit Creator Rewards Program is officially LIVE! Post on Orbit. Earn your share of up to 100K USDT in monthly content rewards. Your voice now pays. Literally. - Post original crypto-related content on OKX Orbit - No sign-up needed. Just meet the basic requirements and you're in - Rewards are distributed based on content quality and real engagement - Paid out every Wednesday, directly to your funding account Start posting. Start earning. → Full details here: https://www.okx.com/campaigns/orbit-creator-monetization

4 new X-Perps contract pairs just landed in the EEA. $AVAX, $BCH, $ZEC and $TON - all now with up to 10× leverage. Learn more: https://www.okx.com/help/okx-to-list-avaxusd-bchusd-tonusd-and-zecusd-expiry-perps-x-perp

The CFTC just admitted it got Gemini wrong. And on the same day, proved it's not going soft. The agency filed to vacate its 2025 consent order stemming from a 2022 complaint against Gemini, calling it a case that "should never have been filed." The original complaint relied on a whistleblower later found to lack credibility. The agency now says Gemini was the victim, not the offender. For context, the CFTC granted Gemini a Derivatives Clearing Organization license just last month. From settling a $5M penalty to licensed clearinghouse in 15 months. But this isn't about going easy on crypto. Same day, the CFTC charged Google engineer Michele Spagnuolo with insider trading on Polymarket after he allegedly used internal search data to make $1.2M betting on Google's Year in Search results. This is the second Polymarket insider case in a month, after a U.S. Special Forces soldier was arrested for betting with classified intel. Two moves, one day: cleaning up old overreach while building real jurisdiction over prediction markets through actual enforcement. Meanwhile, Trump called out "Gary Gensler and the anti-crypto army" at a cabinet meeting and signed an executive order last week directing agencies to integrate digital assets into traditional finance. The signal from Washington: Crypto isn't a threat to regulate away. It's infrastructure to build on. Does clearer regulation make you more confident as a trader, or is price action still all that matters? #CFTCCryptoReset #CFTCGeminiReversal

IRYS Spot Trade-to-Earn — 16,000,000 IRYS in Total Rewards! Campaign Period: May 27 – Jun 8, 10:00 UTC Two reward tracks running simultaneously: 🎯 New User Task — 1,700,000 IRYS Rewards Deposit $10, trade $10 of any spot, hold for 1 day → claim 170 IRYS instantly. First 10,000 users only, first come first served! 🏊 Shared Rewards — 14,300,000 IRYS Pool Trade IRYS/USDT spot (min. 4,000 USDT volume) and earn your share — up to 130,000 IRYS per person Join Now: https://www.okx.com/campaigns/irys-spot-trading-competition?pagesourcefrom=community Available to Offshore region users. KYC is required to participate.

Spot Listing: $IRYS (Irys) IRYS deposits will open at 5:00 UTC on May 27, 2026. IRYS/USDT spot trading will open at 10:00 UTC on May 27, 2026. Project Introduction Irys is a Layer-1 data chain that goes beyond existing Layer-1 models and is designed specifically for AI. By combining a low-cost storage layer with a high-performance, EVM-compatible execution layer (IrysVM), Irys enables data programmability. Asset name: Irys Ticker: IRYS Announcement: https://www.okx.com/help/okx-to-list-irys-usdt-irys-for-spot-trading

The Russell indexes just opened the door to crypto treasuries beyond Bitcoin. FTSE Russell confirmed that Sharplink (SBET) and Forward Industries will join the Russell 2000 and 3000 after this year's rebalance, effective June 29. First time these indexes have included companies whose core strategy is holding ETH or SOL on their balance sheet. The numbers: · Sharplink (backed by ETH co-founder Joe Lubin) holds 870K+ ETH (~$1.8B), the second-largest ETH treasury globally · Forward Industries holds ~$585M in SOL, the biggest public Solana position anywhere · BitMine (BMNR) is also joining the Russell indexes with its own ETH treasury play Why it matters: roughly $12.2 trillion in assets are benchmarked to the Russell US Indexes. Index inclusion means passive fund flows, institutional visibility, and a new compliance-friendly on-ramp into ETH and SOL exposure. Two years ago, MicroStrategy was the only crypto treasury name on anyone's radar. Now an entire category is forming across BTC, ETH, and SOL. If a public company was going all-in on one crypto for their treasury, would you pick BTC, ETH, or SOL? #BeyondBTCIntoRussell

New X Drops just landed in the EEA: $CFG → Hold eligible assets on OKX → Opt in → Earn rewards Participate now: my.okx.com/ul/4YR1wP

Bitcoin ETFs just bled $1.26 billion in six straight days of outflows. But the money didn't leave crypto. It moved. Over the past two weeks, BTC ETFs shed over $2B and ETH ETFs lost $216M. On-chain data shows ~34,000 BTC flowing into exchanges. Year-to-date BTC ETF net inflows have shrunk to just $536M, nearly wiping out all 2026 gains. Jane Street slashed its Bitcoin ETF holdings by 71% in Q1, pivoting hard into ETH exposure instead. So where's the capital going? · XRP ETFs: $22M in weekly inflows, $1.39B cumulative since launch · Solana ETFs: $16M weekly, with May rebounding to $103M month-to-date · HYPE ETFs: ~$72M weekly Total alt-crypto ETF inflows hit ~$226M in the same stretch that BTC and ETH saw heavy outflows. As BRN's Head of Research put it: "The institutional bid hasn't disappeared. It's rotating." The spring BTC rally was built on Fed rate cut expectations. With inflation still running hot, that thesis is fading. Institutions aren't exiting crypto, they're repricing where the upside lives. With capital rotating across the board, what's your read on where institutional flows go next? #ETFRotation

We're listing @solsticefi on Boost. Registrations open on May 25, 10 AM UTC: https://web3.okx.com/ul/87j7nB Claims go live on May 26, 12 PM UTC.

The world's most important oil benchmarks are about to land on a crypto exchange. OKX is launching ICE Brent and ICE WTI Perp Futures, licensed directly from Intercontinental Exchange, the company that owns the NYSE and effectively sets global crude pricing. These are perpetual contracts, meaning no expiry, no rolling, no physical delivery. Just pure price exposure to oil, 24/7. The backstory matters. ICE invested ~$200M in OKX at a $25B valuation back in March, took a board seat, and started building toward exactly this. Less than three months later, the first product is about to go live. The timing is not a coincidence. Brent has swung between $96 and $126 this month alone as US-Iran deal talks keep flipping between "almost done" and "falling apart." That kind of vol used to be something only commodity desks could trade. Soon it will be accessible to OKX's 120M+ users in licensed regions. What makes this different from existing crypto-native oil products: the pricing comes directly from ICE, the same source Wall Street energy desks rely on. Would you trade oil perps alongside your crypto positions, or is this a market you would rather stay out of? #ICEBacksOKXOilPerps