OKX Officially Rebrands from OKEx to OKX
When we first started our entrepreneurial journey in the Crypto space, Bitcoin and Ethereum were still in their infancy, and blockchain was merely a laboratory concept. Just a few short years later, the Crypto market cap has reached $2 trillion, achieving 20% of gold's market cap. Bitcoin has become a globally recognized network consensus, Ethereum's thriving dApp ecosystem has become an indispensable part of many people's lives, the metaverse has become a red ocean where countless internet giants are racing to enter, Web3 has given global entrepreneurs a better dream, and blockchain has become the underlying infrastructure of this entirely new technological revolution.
Following the development of the blockchain industry, OKEx, as one of the world's earliest Crypto Exchanges, has also continued to grow and innovate. Over the past few years, OKEx has faced numerous crises, such as frequent system outages in the early days, customer service collapses with queues of over a thousand people, chaotic team management, and more. However, we have overcome countless difficulties, navigated through crisis after crisis, and always remained at the forefront of the Crypto industry.
Today, looking back at our tribulations and achievements, analyzing their causes, it is not because our team is so powerful, nor because we have been particularly lucky. The primary reason is the unwavering companionship of tens of millions of global customers over the years. This is a tremendous trust that has given us infinite motivation. Secondly, we are a team with firm ideals. We believe that Crypto will certainly become an emerging industry that will change everyone's life and make the world a better place. Our founding intention in establishing OKEx was to bring this new technological product of Crypto to hundreds of millions of users worldwide. Driven by this original intention, no matter how great the difficulties, we have pressed forward courageously.
In the past few years, we have resolved the contract system clawback issue, launched unified Account and portfolio margin functions, and created the world's leading Crypto Trading system; we introduced Meta X, providing a multi-chain non-custodial wallet, OKX NFT Market, DEX, Dapps, and other products; OKTC, as a self-developed public chain, has shown initial promise in its ecosystem development; OKX Ventures has invested in hundreds of blockchain projects globally, working with our partners to promote the prosperity of the Crypto Ecosystem. OKEx is no longer a simple Crypto Trading platform, but is evolving into a Crypto Ecosystem infrastructure provider. Therefore, we have decided to rebrand OKEx as OKX, while changing our website domain from okex.com to okx.com.
Today, OKX still has many issues, such as less than ideal global user experience, various minor bugs in products, Meta X still being in its early stages, many products still under development, and OKTC's performance at only about 1,000 transactions per second, with ecosystem development still lagging far behind other public chains. However, upholding the ideal of "bringing Crypto to hundreds of millions of users worldwide," we are full of confidence, firm in our goals, and abundant in motivation. In the future, OKX will appear with a brand-new brand, continuously launch more exciting products, use OKB as the bridge connecting the OKX platform with users, and OKT as the foundational Token of OKTC.
We firmly believe that OKX will become a respected global blockchain company. We will always maintain reverence, listen to our customers' voices, closely follow industry development trends, actively innovate to lead industry development, and grow together with every one of our users.
Thank you for moving forward with us.
OKX
January 18, 2022
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