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OKX "New Year's Eve Dinner" Successfully Concluded: Industry Exchange Phase Ends, New Journey in the Year of the Horse Begins

2026-01-26 03:31

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On January 25, 2026, the OKX "New Year's Banquet" event officially concluded.

As a special gathering for industry builders, this event was sponsored by partners such as 0G and Base, inviting over a hundred industry builders and dozens of media guests to participate. Centered around topics such as OKX's latest product roadmap, industry hot topics analysis, and practical experience sharing, the event provided the industry with a more in-depth communication platform at the year-end, welcoming the Lunar New Year.

The event brought together practitioners and creators from various fields such as trading, technology, content, and community. Through theme sharing, annual reviews, and open Q&A, participants discussed topics related to ecosystem development, product direction, content, and community growth. Multiple rounds of interactive Q&A sessions allowed for ample exchange of industry insights and practical experiences on-site.

On the first day of the event, OKX's 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 mindset shifts, and global systemic regulation. He called on practitioners and content creators to stay away from noise and hyperbole, uphold long-termism, and collectively uphold the industry's reputation.

Additionally, Star noted that OKX will take on more industry responsibilities and will continue to provide more diverse, user-friendly, and convenient financial services within a global regulatory framework. In terms of ecosystem layout, OKX will advance more user-friendly and convenient diversified services within a global compliance framework, driving more assets onto the chain, covering cross-chain assets and Real-World Assets (RWA), making X Layer and the OKX Web3 wallet a key carrier of multi-type assets and a core entry point for users into the on-chain world. Meanwhile, OKX Pay will continue to upgrade to lower the barriers to Web3 usage and promote the practical application of crypto payments.

During the annual review session, OKX's Mandarin Market Director, Tian Yi, stated that over the past year, OKX has continuously promoted product and ecosystem development. Compliance layout has made significant progress in core markets such as the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, and strategic partnerships have been formed with institutions such as Standard Chartered, DBS, Mastercard, further improving fiat on/off-ramp and payment scenarios. On the product side, OKX drives CeFi-DeFi integration through the built-in DEX and has introduced various products and features such as "Earn from Staking," "Flash Earn," C2C Insurance, and Boost to continuously enhance user experience; OKX Wallet relies on a self-developed AI risk control engine and a 24/7 security system to strengthen risk identification and security in multi-chain interaction scenarios.

So far, OKX's global user base has exceeded 120 million. In the future, OKX will continue to increase its investment in underlying technology, security, and product experience to accompany the industry through the cycle in a more robust manner.

In a Web3-themed sharing session, Zakk, the head of OKX Wallet, stated that the overall traffic of OKX Wallet has reached an industry-leading level. In the next stage, OKX Wallet hopes to use a more systematic product roadmap and technological combination to answer the proposition of "how the on-chain world can truly move towards the masses." Zakk considers "utmost" as the first keyword in the Wallet product roadmap and prioritizes "security and self-custody" at the highest level. Additionally, the widespread acceptance of OKX Wallet is attributed to automation and full parsing capabilities, making asset and transaction information "more readable and usable."

Currently, OKX Wallet has covered 140 public chains, with 30 supporting DEX and aggregating around 500 protocols. Through smart routing and global multi-server deployment, OKX Wallet hopes to achieve faster transaction speed and better prices simultaneously.

Around "community and content," Jason, the product manager of OKX Planet Community, stated that the OKX Planet Community has started public testing. This is OKX's first systematic attempt in the community product direction, aiming to create a crypto community integrating information acquisition, trading opportunity sharing, creator participation, and deep community engagement. The current product covers public domain creation, character display, live interaction, and private domain community, among other content forms, and provides continuous exposure and conversion for creators and users through a recommendation mechanism.

In terms of incentive mechanisms, OKX Planet sets up a weekly cash prize pool and links creator incentives to community activity and platform trading behavior. Jason revealed that in the future, the Planet Community will gradually integrate with the OKX platform in terms of product, information, rights, and ecology, including exploring new community and trading gameplay based on the X Layer; in the short term, the focus will be on rapid iteration and experience improvement to drive the continuous growth of the community.

In the strategic trading direction, OKX has launched an AI Trading Bot. Terrence, the product manager of OKX's strategic trading products, stated that this product supports users to generate and execute trading strategies through natural language without the need to write code. It also provides backtesting, multiple risk controls, and AI open-close explanations for each trade to enhance transparency and controllability. The AI Trading Bot is expected to start internal testing before the Spring Festival and gradually open up after the festival. In the future, it will also expand to on-chain trading, multi-asset management, and explore a trading community model for strategy co-creation and sharing.

In addition to theme sharing, the event also includes an annual honorary award section to recognize individuals and organizations who have contributed to the industry's content ecosystem and community development over the past year. Awards include categories such as "2025 Outstanding Creator," "2025 Best Community Partner," and "2025 Annual Peer Media Partner."

OKX hopes to make the "New Year's Eve Dinner" a yearly gathering point for industry builders to form ongoing connections with more builders, creators, and partners, collectively driving the compliance process, technological evolution, and long-term value creation to expand the application boundaries of Web3 more widely.