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Crypto futures trading for beginners: why trade futures over spot?
Imagine this: you strongly believe Bitcoin's price will surge in the next few months. With spot trading , you'd buy Bitcoin directly and hold it until the price rises. However, what if you could make use of leverage to amplify your potential gains with a smaller upfront cost? Enter crypto futures — a form of derivatives that's equally beloved as it is feared by the crypto community. While it might sound intimidating for beginner crypto traders, crypto futures trading may be perfect for you if you're aware of the potential gains and risks that come with trading such crypto derivatives.
This crypto futures trading guide is designed for crypto-curious beginners like you, offering a high-level overview of crypto futures trading for beginners, its potential benefits and risks, and how it's different from spot trading.
Nov 27, 2025
Beginners
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CeDeFi Trading Is Now Live — A Step Toward a Unified Market Infrastructure
By Star Xu, Founder of OKX OKX was built to make global markets accessible through reliable and transparent technology. CeDeFi trading extends that mission — combining the efficiency of centralized infrastructure with the openness of decentralized networks.
Nov 26, 2025
Intermediate
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OKX
To another year of building
A letter from OKX Founder and CEO Star Xu
As the CEO of OKX, and a builder at heart, I'm proud to reflect on an extraordinary year of growth and progress. Despite challenges, 2024 was a year of focus, innovation, and resilience. We expanded and enhanced our products, made significant strides in bringing to market a transparent and regulatory compliant onshore business, and added weight to our already deep global executive bench. Most notably, 2024 marked a turning point for the industry, serving as crypto's "comeback year" after a period of heightened uncertainty.
Nov 22, 2025
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How to buy crypto
How to buy crypto?
Buying and trading cryptocurrency has become increasingly popular over the past decade. Its decentralized nature, accessibility, and anonymity are some of the reasons crypto has become so appealing. And now more and more investors are turning towards this form of trading.
Nov 22, 2025
Beginners
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Revolutionizing DAO Governance: Emerging Models, Challenges, and Sustainability Initiatives
Introduction to DAOs and Their Significance Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are revolutionizing blockchain technology by introducing transparent, community-driven governance structures.
Jul 14, 2025
Altcoin
Trending token
How Permissionless Lending and Tokenized Real-World Assets Are Revolutionizing DeFi
Introduction to Permissionless Lending in DeFi Decentralized finance (DeFi) has emerged as a groundbreaking innovation within the blockchain ecosystem, offering financial services without intermediari
Aug 1, 2025
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USDG Rewards on OKX: Grow Your Stablecoin Balance the Simple Way
You now can earn up to 4.1% APY (rate and availability differ by market) on USDG balances, paid out weekly — no staking, no lockups, no hassle. Rewards are available on your USDG holdings on our app if you are in the United States, Australia, Latin America, CIS (excluding Russia and Ukraine) and Southeast Asia.
Nov 21, 2025
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Delta-Neutral Made Native, Now Built Into OKX
Where most platforms see two risky positions, we see one smart strategy, a hedge. So we created a first-of-its-kind new smart account for delta-neutral traders, where your hedge is seen by the platform as a unified trade, unlocking capital efficiency and control. It’s built to understand your true net risk. By analyzing your longs and shorts as a single, balanced portfolio, it delivers two key benefits:
Nov 13, 2025
Intermediate
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Trading
Bitcoin Staking Arrives on OKX US
Bitcoin is the most held crypto asset in the world. Millions of long-term holders believe in its future. Until now, BTC has been largely passive. Strong in conviction, but idle in growth. We're now changing that for US clients. It's time your Bitcoin can get productive.
Oct 4, 2025
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What's a limit order?
A limit order instructs a broker to buy or sell an asset at a specific price. When you place a limit order, you essentially set a price limit for the transaction. The order will be executed if the asset’s price reaches or surpasses your limit price. However, the order will not be carried out if the market price exceeds your limit.
Nov 26, 2025
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How to short Bitcoin: a step-by-step guide to short-selling BTC
With its limited supply, protocol-regulated rate of issuance, and generally rising popularity and demand, Bitcoin has — over the decade or so of its existence — managed to outperform typical assets by a large margin. However, this long-term price appreciation hasn't happened without sharp drops and several bearish phases along the way.
Nov 26, 2025
Intermediate
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Strategies
What are Telegram trading bots: how to trade crypto in Telegram
Blink and you’ll miss it. That’s how quickly some potential crypto trading opportunities can seemingly pass you by if you’re new to the crypto trading scene. Fortunately, many crypto trading tools today help ease beginners into the process of and navigating the onchain trading process. Enter Telegram trading bots: the new kid on the block that’s become increasingly popular among crypto enthusiasts because of the unmatched convenience on offer.
Nov 21, 2025
Intermediate
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