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Unlock the Value in Your Crypto Without Selling It
By Erald Ghoos, CEO, OKX Europe Throughout their lives, people have three fundamental financial needs. To pay, or get paid. To grow their wealth. And to borrow, when they need to. Borrowing is one of the biggest businesses in finance. Almost everyone needs to access money beyond their savings at some point in their life. Households in the euro area owe their banks more than €7 trillion, most of it in mortgages. Worldwide, loans backed by crypto add up to about $56 billion. That enormous gap tells you how early crypto still is when it comes to loans.
Nov 10, 2026
OKX
Futures
Trading
X-Perps: Our Regulated Crypto Derivatives are Live in Europe
Today, OKX is launching X-Perps in Europe, MiFID-regulated crypto derivatives with up to 10x leverage, available to retail and institutional traders across the European Economic Area. X-Perps are five-year expiry crypto futures that use a funding rate mechanism to keep pricing anchored to the underlying spot market, with up to 10x leverage, multicurrency mode in a unified account, real-time continuous margining, and multi-asset collateral without settlement delays.
Oct 30, 2026
Derivatives
Futures
Trading
Trade Stocks, SPY, QQQ, Gold and Oil X-Perps 24/7 on OKX
X-Perps for the Magnificent 7 (Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, Tesla), four major commodities (Gold, Silver, WTI Crude Oil, Brent Crude Oil), and SPY and QQQ, the two most-traded ETFs in the world by daily share volume, are now available to European customers on OKX, with SpaceX to follow on Friday, following the most anticipated IPO in the past two decades. All available 24/7, with up to 10x leverage. Now you can rotate between crypto and other assets the moment something moves using the same account and margin.
Oct 30, 2026
Stablecoins
Trading
OKX Brings EUR and EURC into a Unified Order Book Advancing Euro-Denominated Crypto Trading
European crypto traders should be able to trade in a way that feels native to Europe. That means easier access to EUR, better support for euro-denominated assets, and a smoother path between fiat EUR and euro stablecoins. Today, we are taking an important step in that direction. We have launched a unified EUR order book that includes EURC for users in Europe.
Oct 21, 2026
OKX
Security
Setting a new standard for crypto account security
By Erald Ghoos, CEO of OKX Europe Today, we launch OKX Shield in Europe: up to €500,000 in account protection, with no subscription or activation fee. We're taking greater responsibility for customer protection, and putting our own money behind it.
Sep 22, 2026
Trading
Derivatives
Futures
European traders shouldn't need two apps to trade bitcoin and NVIDIA
Most Europeans keep money spread across several apps: a bank, a broker they log into twice a year, and something for crypto. Each holds a slice of the same money and none of them speak to each other. Crypto and equities ended up in separate boxes because they developed under separate rulebooks. That's an inheritance, and it's a poor reason to keep two accounts open in 2026 when you can have everything in one app that provides full portfolio visibility and instant switching strategies between asset classes when market conditions change.
Sep 10, 2026
OKX
Crypto Cards are Going Mainstream in Europe, and OKX Card Volume is Surging
Written by Erald Ghoos, CEO of OKX Europe For much of crypto's history, success was measured by how many people were buying, trading and holding digital assets. Today, a different question is becoming just as important: how are people actually using them?
Aug 21, 2026
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