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Today, we are excited to announce the launch of our 'The Genesis of Smart Trading' campaign . This campaign features a prize pool worth over 100,000 USDT and exclusive token airdrops for eligible users.

OKX's first co-authorship of Ethereum Request for Comment (ERC) standard, in collaboration with Biconomy, ZeroDev and Rhinestone, seeks to enhance interoperability and improve Web3 wallets' end-user experience

Today, we're excited to announce the appointment of Mehmet Çamır as Chairman of the Board for OKX Türkiye (OKX TR). Mehmet, who has served in Türkiye’s foremost public and private banking institutions and the Turkish Wealth Fund, brings his expertise in regulation, financial markets, public relations and audit, along with his knowledge of the crypto and blockchain space.

Hong Kong, February 14, 2024 -- OKX , a leading Web3 technology company and Official Primary Partner of the McLaren Formula 1 Team, today celebrated the unveiling of the MCL38 race car which will hit the track for the upcoming 2024 F1 season with new OKX branding on the side pods for 20 races, in addition to other OKX branding placements on the car.

Singapore, February 9, 2024 – OKX Ventures , the investment arm of leading crypto exchange and Web3 technology company OKX, is pleased to announce its investment partnership with Bitmap Tech , the team behind Merlin Chain, a native Bitcoin Layer 2.

Hong Kong, February 8, 2024 -- OKX Ventures , the investment arm of leading crypto exchange and Web3 technology company OKX , today announced a seed investment in DEXTools , the leading DeFi analytics platform. The investment establishes a partnership between DEXTools and OKX, who are dedicated to advancing blockchain innovation, and sets the stage for DEXTools analytics to be integrated to the OKX Web3 Platform. 

I'm pleased to announce a major milestone in OKX's global expansion - we have officially launched our leading crypto exchange and Web3 services in Argentina! Given Argentina's position as one of the top crypto markets in Latin America with rapidly accelerating adoption, it represents an exciting milestone as OKX's latest global launch. Consumer demand for crypto assets continues to surge as innovations in the country evolve at a stunning pace. It's that combination of an established crypto foothold and swift evolution that makes Argentina so exciting as our next market.

Buenos Aires , February 7, 2024 -- OKX , a leading global Web3 technology company and crypto exchange, today announced its latest global expansion with the official launch of its exchange and Web3 Wallet in Argentina.

Singapore, February 7, 2024 -- OKX Ventures , the investment arm of leading Web3 technology company OKX , today published its latest ' 2024 Forecast ' report. The report predicts a significant user growth driven by blockchain games in 2024, especially with the integration of high-profile ("triple-a") blockchain games easing traditional gamers into the Web3 space.In addition to GameFi, the '2024 Forecast' emphasizes the transformative influence of the AI sector in the Web3 landscape.

Dubai, the UAE, Feb 7, 2024 -- OKX , a leading global Web3 technology company and virtual asset exchange, and SignalPlus , an industry-leading virtual asset trading infrastructure provider, today announced the expansion of their strategic partnership to integrate SignalPlus' full suite of trading tools into OKX's trading platform, aiming to provide OKX users with an unmatched trading experience.

VICTORIA, Seychelles, January 31, 2024 - OKX , a leading crypto exchange and Web3 technology company, today announced that it received the " Most Reliable Tech " award at the 2023 TradingView Broker Awards, highlighting the dependability of its brokerage offering on TradingView. OKX has been seamlessly integrated with TradingView since 2022, providing real-time data, customizable charts and efficient order execution to users.

Dubai, the UAE, January 31, 2024 -- OKX , a leading global Web3 technology company and crypto exchange, today announced the publication of its 15th monthly Proof of Reserves (PoR) report, showcasing primary assets amounting to USD14.9 billion, a 104% average reserve ratio of primary assets and the inclusion of Bitcoin Cash (BCH) for the first time.

Nassau, the Bahamas, January 30, 2024 -- OKX , a leading global Web3 technology company and crypto exchange, today announced the launch of its ' USDC Simple Earn ' campaign. The campaign offers users of OKX’s product the opportunity to earn an additional annual percentage rate (APR) of 5% on their USDC, a digital dollar backed 100% by highly liquid cash and cash-equivalent assets, on top of any base APR.

Inscriptions were born in early 2023 when users began to inscribe text, images, and multimedia on the Bitcoin blockchain. This quickly became a phenomenon as the crypto community discovered new ways to use inscriptions to build and trade new assets, such as NFTs and tokens. Since then, many new and have been created - on Bitcoin and other blockchains - driving massive community interest and activity.

Today we announced that we will be the first to launch support for four new inscription token standards on our platform, with Atomicals (ARC-20), Stamps (SRC-20), Runes and Dogecoin's Doginals (DRC-20) to be added to our Web3 Wallet, and DRC-20 and ARC-20 to be added to our Marketplace in the coming weeks. These integrations will help build the leading one-stop inscriptions ecosystem in Web3.

Singapore, January 23, 2024 -- OKX Ventures , the investment arm of leading Web3 technology company OKX , today published its ' 2024 Bitcoin Outlook ' report. The report forecasts a pivotal role for Bitcoin's Ordinals in 2024, based on the remarkable growth of OKX Wallet's total Ordinals trading volume in 2023, which exceeded USD1 billion across over 120,322 unique addresses for the year. 

Singapore, January 24, 2024 – OKX Ventures , the investment arm of leading crypto exchange and Web3 technology company OKX, today announced that it has led a strategic investment in Orbiter Finance , a decentralized cross-Layer 2 (L2) protocol. Currently, Orbiter Finance is undergoing transformative product enhancements and is developing a zero knowledge (ZK) technology-based, omni-chain rollup on Ethereum.

Hong Kong, January 23, 2024 - HashKey Group ("HashKey" or "the Group"), a leading end-to-end digital asset financial services group in Asia, and OKX, a global leading Web3 technology company and crypto exchange, today announced plans to create a partnership to promote compliant virtual asset innovation and industry development in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong, January 17, 2024 OKX, a leading Web3 technology company and Official Primary Partner of the McLaren Formula 1 Team, today announced that as part of an expansion of its partnership with the team, the OKX logo will be featured on the side pods of the McLaren F1 car livery for 20 races in the 2024 F1 season, in addition to other OKX branding placements on the car.

License is non-operational and remains subject to fulfilment of specific conditions and qualifying for operational approval. Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 16, 2024 -- OKX Middle East Fintech FZE, the Dubai subsidiary of OKX, a leading cryptocurrency exchange and Web3 technology company, today announced that it has received a Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license from the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) for VA Exchange Services. The license remains non-operational until the company fully satisfies all remaining conditions and select localisation requirements defined by VARA, following which it will be able to commence operations, subject to regulatory reverification and approval.

Ahlan Dubai! As General Manager of OKX in the MENA Region, I am thrilled to share that we've received our Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) license from the Dubai Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) for VA Exchange Services. While the licence is not yet operational, this achievement is a significant milestone and testament to our team's hard work and dedication, and a reflection of Dubai's forward-thinking approach to virtual assets and Web3 technology.

Launching today and continuing until February 4, the 'CCTP Cryptopedia Campaign' allows OKX DEX users who swap USDC across different blockchains on the OKX DEX aggregator the opportunity to claim a share of a 50,000 USDC reward pool

Today, we're excited to announce that we are the first exchange to list the ICE token on our spot market. ICE is the token that fuels Ice Open Network (ION), a high-performance, multi-threaded and multi-shard blockchain that is capable of processing millions of transactions per second.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, January 11, 2024 -- OKX , a leading Web3 technology company, today announced the launch of its Arabic-language website and app for both crypto trading and Web3 services. This initiative marks a significant step in making digital assets and web3 technologies more accessible to Arabic-speaking audiences.