OKX "New Year's Eve Dinner" Concludes: Industry Exchange Phase Wraps Up, New Journey of the Year of the Horse Begins

On January 25, 2026, OKX's "New Year's Eve Dinner" event officially concluded.

As a special gathering for industry builders, this event was sponsored by partners including 0G and Base, and invited over a hundred industry builders and dozens of media guests to participate. Centered around topics such as OKX's latest product plans, analysis of industry hotspots, and sharing of practical experience, the event provided a more in-depth communication platform for the industry at the year-end juncture, 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, participants engaged in discussions on topics such as ecosystem development, product direction, and content and community growth. Multiple rounds of "no-holds-barred" interactive Q&A allowed for extensive exchange of industry insights and practical experiences on-site.

On the first day of the event, Star, Founder and CEO of OKX, 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 systematic regulation. He called on practitioners and content creators to distance themselves from noise and exaggerated narratives, adhere to long-termism, and jointly uphold the industry's reputation.

Simultaneously, Star also stated that OKX will assume greater industry responsibility and will continue to provide more diverse, user-friendly, and convenient financial services within the global regulatory framework. Regarding ecosystem strategy, OKX will continue to advance more user-friendly and convenient diversified services within the global compliance framework, and promote the on-chain migration of more assets, including cross-chain assets and real-world assets (RWA), aiming to make X Layer and the OKX Web3 Wallet key carriers for multi-type assets and core gateways for users entering the on-chain world. Additionally, OKX Pay will continue to be upgraded to lower the barrier to Web3 usage and promote the practical application of crypto payments.

During the annual review session, Tianyi, Marketing Director for OKX's Chinese-speaking region, stated that over the past year, OKX has continuously advanced product and ecosystem development. Its compliance strategy has achieved phased progress in core markets across the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, and it has established multiple strategic partnerships with institutions such as Standard Chartered, DBS, and Mastercard, further improving fiat on/off-ramp and payment scenarios. On the product side, OKX has promoted the integration of CeFi and DeFi through its built-in DEX, and launched various products and features such as "Maker Earn," "Flash Earn," C2C Freeze & Compensation, and Boost, continuously optimizing user experience. OKX Wallet, relying on its self-developed AI risk control engine and 7×24-hour security system, has strengthened risk identification and security assurance in multi-chain interaction scenarios.

To date, OKX's global user base has surpassed 120 million. OKX will continue to increase investment in underlying technology, security, and product experience in the future, accompanying the industry through cycles in a more robust manner.

In the Web3 keynote speech, 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 address the question of "how the on-chain world can truly reach the masses" with a more systematic product roadmap and technology portfolio. Zakk identified "perfection" as the primary keyword for the Wallet product roadmap, placing "security and self-custody" as the highest priority. Furthermore, the key to OKX Wallet's widespread acceptance lies in its automation and comprehensive parsing capabilities, making asset and transaction information "more readable and more usable."

Currently, OKX Wallet supports over 140 public chains, with DEX support on 30 of them, and aggregates approximately 500 protocols. Through smart routing and server deployment in multiple global locations, OKX Wallet aims to achieve both faster transaction speeds and better prices simultaneously.

Focusing on "Community and Content," Jason, Product Lead for OKX Planet Community, stated that the OKX Planet Community has entered public beta. This marks OKX's first systematic attempt in the direction of community products, with the goal of building a crypto community that integrates information acquisition, trading opportunity sharing, creator participation, and deep social groups. The current product covers content formats including public content creation, profile showcasing, live streaming interaction, and private community groups, and provides continuous exposure and conversion for creators and users through recommendation mechanisms.

Regarding incentive mechanisms, OKX Planet has established 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 at the product, information, rights, and ecosystem levels, including exploring new community and trading models based on X Layer. In the short term, the focus will be on rapid iteration and experience refinement to drive continuous community growth.

In the direction of strategy trading, OKX launched the AI Trading Bot. Terrence, Product Lead for OKX Strategy Trading, stated that this product allows users to generate and execute trading strategies using natural language, without the need for coding. It also provides backtesting, multiple risk controls, and AI explanations for the opening and closing of each trade to enhance transparency and controllability. The AI Trading Bot is expected to begin internal testing before the Spring Festival and gradually open up afterward. In the future, it will expand to on-chain trading, multi-asset management, and explore a trading community model for strategy co-creation and sharing.

In addition to keynote speeches, the event also featured an annual awards ceremony to recognize individuals and institutions that contributed to the industry's content ecosystem and community building over the past year. Award categories included "2025 Outstanding Creator," "2025 Best Community Partner," and "2025 Annual Media Partner," among others.

OKX aims to establish the "New Year's Eve Dinner" as an annual gathering point for industry builders, fostering continuous connections with more builders, creators, and partners. Together, they aim to advance compliance processes, technological evolution, and long-term value creation, pushing Web3 towards broader application boundaries.