On January 25, 2026, OKX's "New Year's Eve Dinner" event officially came to an end.
As a special gathering for industry builders, this event was sponsored by partners such as 0G and Base, and invited over a hundred industry builders and dozens of media guests to participate. Focusing on topics such as OKX's latest product planning, analysis of industry hot topics, and sharing of practical experience, the event provided the industry with a more in-depth exchange platform at the end of the year, welcoming the arrival of the Lunar New Year together.
The event brought together practitioners and creators from various fields, including trading, technology, content, and community. Through keynote speeches, annual reviews, and open Q&A sessions, attendees discussed topics such as ecosystem building, product direction, and content and community growth. Multiple rounds of candid Q&A sessions also facilitated the exchange of industry insights and practical experience.
On the first day of the event, OKX founder and CEO Star delivered a keynote speech via video link. He pointed out that the crypto industry is entering a new phase driven by technological evolution, generational shifts in mindset, and global systemic regulation. He called on practitioners and content creators to stay away from noise and exaggerated rhetoric, adhere to long-termism, and work together to maintain the industry's reputation.
Star also pointed out that OKX will assume greater industry responsibility and continue to provide more diversified, user-friendly, and convenient financial services within the global regulatory framework. Regarding ecosystem development, OKX will continue to promote more user-friendly and convenient diversified services within the global compliance framework, and drive more assets onto the blockchain, covering cross-chain assets and real-world assets such as RWA, making X Layer and the OKX Web3 wallet important carriers of various asset types and core entry points for users to enter the on-chain world; meanwhile, OKX Pay will continue to upgrade, lowering the barriers to Web3 usage and promoting the practical application of crypto payments.
During the annual review session, Tianyi, Marketing Director of OKX Chinese Region, stated that in the past year, OKX has continued to advance product and ecosystem development, achieving phased progress in compliance deployment in core markets such as the Americas, Europe, and Asia Pacific. OKX has also established multiple strategic partnerships with institutions such as Standard Chartered, DBS, and Mastercard, further improving fiat currency deposits and withdrawals and payment scenarios. On the product side, OKX promotes the integration of CeFi and DeFi through its built-in DEX, and has launched various products and functions such as "Listing Orders for Profit," "Instant Earnings," C2C Freeze Compensation, and Boost, continuously optimizing the user experience. OKX Wallet, relying on its self-developed AI risk control engine and 24/7 security system, strengthens risk identification and security in multi-chain interaction scenarios.
To date, OKX has surpassed 120 million users worldwide. OKX will continue to increase its investment in underlying technology, security, and product experience, providing a more robust support for the industry through economic cycles.
In his presentation on Web3, Zakk, head of OKX Wallet, stated that OKX Wallet's overall traffic has reached industry-leading levels. In the next phase, OKX Wallet aims to answer the question of "how to truly bring the on-chain world to the masses" with a more systematic product roadmap and technology combination. Zakk identified "excellence" as the primary keyword for the Wallet product roadmap and placed "security and self-custody" as the highest priority. Furthermore, the key to OKX Wallet's widespread acceptance lies in its automation and full-data parsing capabilities, making asset and transaction information "more readable and more usable."
Currently, OKX Wallet covers 140 public chains, 30 of which support DEX, and aggregates approximately 500 protocols. Through intelligent routing and global server deployment, OKX Wallet aims to achieve both faster transaction speeds and better prices.
Regarding "community and content," Jason, the product manager of OKX Planet Community, stated that OKX Planet Community has launched its public beta. This is OKX's first systematic attempt in the direction of community products, aiming to create an encrypted community that integrates information access, trading opportunity sharing, creator participation, and deep community building. The current product covers content formats such as public domain creation, persona display, live streaming interaction, and private domain communities, and provides continuous exposure and conversion for creators and users through a recommendation mechanism.
In terms of incentive mechanisms, OKX Planet has established a weekly cash prize pool and links creator incentives with community activity and platform transaction behavior. Jason revealed that in the future, the Planet community will gradually integrate with the OKX platform in terms of products, information, benefits, and ecosystem, including exploring new community and transaction features based on X Layer; in the short term, the focus will be on rapid iteration and experience improvement to drive the community's continuous growth.
In the area of strategic trading, OKX has launched the AI Trading Bot. Terrence, head of OKX's strategic trading product, stated that the product allows users to generate and execute trading strategies using natural language, without writing code. It also provides backtesting, multiple risk controls, and AI-generated explanations for opening and closing positions for each trade to enhance transparency and controllability. The AI Trading Bot is expected to begin internal testing before the Spring Festival and gradually expand to the public afterward. Future plans include extending to on-chain trading, multi-asset management, and exploring a trading community model for strategy co-creation and sharing.
In addition to the keynote speeches, the event also includes an annual awards ceremony to recognize individuals and organizations that have contributed to the industry's content ecosystem and community building over the past year. Awards cover categories such as "2025 Outstanding Creator," "2025 Best Community Partner," and "2025 Media Partner of the Year."
OKX hopes to make the "New Year's Eve Dinner" an annual gathering point for industry builders, forming a continuous connection with more builders, creators and partners to jointly promote compliance, technological evolution and long-term value creation, and drive Web3 to extend to a wider range of application boundaries.
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