​Comparison of OKX’s 4 major structured products

In the traditional financial field, the product matrix including stocks, bonds, funds, futures, options, etc. is already very rich.

As an innovation in emerging financial formats, the crypto industry on the one hand innovates tools such as lending and liquidity mining under decentralized finance DeFi to reform many shortcomings of traditional finance. On the other hand, through the migration of traditional financial tools, using crypto assets as a carrier, Take over the development of inclusive finance.

The current crypto industry has a good accumulation of asset types under ERC 20, ERC-721, ERC-1155 and other standards.OKX integrates centralized exchanges and decentralized wallets into the same APP to build a powerful financial tool for the future.

If OKX Web3 Wallet is responsible for the innovation of financial instruments, then OKX Exchange is responsible for the migration and popularization of financial instruments.Recently, OKX announced the official launch of Haiou, becoming the first exchange in the industry to launch this structured product, and once again demonstrated the comprehensiveness of providing financial products.

This article will use Haiou products as a clue to explore the financial product landscape of OKX exchange.

1. OKX exclusively launches Seagull

Structured products are innovative financial instruments that earn income from derivatives markets such as futures and options. They are already very mature in traditional financial markets. However, due to the highly customized nature of structured products, different asset portfolios and risk control need to be balanced. , currently there are not many exchanges offering structured products in the crypto industry.However, OKX has previously launched Shark Fin, Dual Currency Win, and Snowball diversified structured products, which have the advantages of zero handling fees, high annualization, and free choice of risk levels.

Users choose products based on current market conditions and risk preferences, which can capture potential returns while avoiding risks.

For example, the current price of wheat is 100 yuan, but it is easily affected by various factors such as season and demand. Farmer Lao Wang is worried about the future decline in wheat prices and buys put options, while bakery owner Lao Zhang is worried about rising wheat prices. Buy call options. If the price of wheat falls below 100 yuan on the expiration date, farmer Lao Wang can exercise the put option and sell wheat at a price of 100 yuan to avoid risks. Bakery owner Lao Zhang can give up exercising the call option. Although he has lost the option premium, he can now buy wheat at a lower price, and vice versa.

Haiou is the first structured product launched by OKX in the industry.Similar in nature to traditional financial Seagull options, it is composed of three ordinary option strategies with the same expiry date.OKX Seagull products are divided into bullish Seagull and bearish Seagull. Bullish Seagull supports users to invest in USDT, and bearish Seagull supports users to invest in BTC and ETH. Next, take the bullish Seagull-BTC product as an example to briefly analyze the potential returns and risks of this product.

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In general,OKX Seagull products have lower costs and risks, but the maximum returns are also limited. They are mainly suitable when the market is expected to rise slightly or fluctuate. This helps investors achieve low-cost or even zero-cost hedging without having to understand complex derivatives. They only need to invest in USDT or BTC with one click based on their own judgment of the market and risk preferences.

2. Comparison of OKX structured products

As mentioned earlier, OKX has a wealth of structured products, including Shark Fin, Double Token Win, Snowball, and the just-launched Seagull.

All OKX structured products do not charge handling fees, and have good potential profits and a relatively good risk control system. However, in the face of an increasingly detailed matrix of structured products, many users still have a relatively fragmented understanding of the products. To this end, we will make a simple comparison of OKX structured products from multiple dimensions such as applicable market conditions and reference annualization. We hope it can give everyone a basic reference, but there are many variables that should be subject to the actual situation:

The OKX financial sector currently provides three core sectors: earning money, lending, and Jumpstart. Earning money includes three categories: simple earning money, structured products, and earning money on the chain. Seagull is one of the structured products.

In addition, the OKX lending section is designed to meet the investment and consumption needs of users, and loans can be made by pledging digital assets. The Jumpstart section is the first to discover high-quality new projects around the world. OKB holders can easily participate.

3. Build powerful financial tools for the future

In the era of globalization, finance is a big network, and everyone is an economic animal on this network. A single move can affect the whole body. Exchange rate, interest rate hike, CPI, GDP, annualized rate of return, price-to-earnings ratio, PMI...these are esoteric and complex words frequently mentioned by financial scientists. In fact, they are essentially the data behind peoples basic necessities, food, housing, transportation, food, drinks and entertainment. Knowledge after statistics, quantification and abstract summary. High inflationary pressure exposes the U.S. and even the global financial system to systemic risks, and what we can do is make good use of financial tools and strategies to find alpha while taking good risk defenses.

The crypto industry is an extension and innovation of a thousand-year history of financial development. As an industry-leading crypto exchange and Web3 technology company, OKX is building powerful financial tools for the future.

In addition to structured financial products that have evolved from traditional finance, its centralized exchange and decentralized product Web3 wallet have also taken the lead in the industry through continuous innovation. According to the latest ecological map released by its OKX Web3 wallet, the wallet sector has access to more than 70 public chains, the DeFi sector supports more than 120 protocols, the NFT market aggregation platform is 30+, and supports Game, Social, MEME, Tool, etc. Ecosystem supports more than 300 platforms and protocols in total. In addition, it also has the most powerful DEX and cross-chain aggregator, as well as a flexible and comprehensive Discovery section, etc.

The emergence of crypto-assets and OKX tools will bring new and fair financial participation opportunities to global users.