OKX said it has rolled out the OKX Shield protection plan in Europe, introducing what it described as a new benchmark for crypto user protection in the region. Under the plan, eligible users can receive compensation of up to €100,000. For VIP users, the maximum payout rises to €500,000. The announcement was cited by Techub News and attributed to OKX. The company said the program offers industry-leading protection measures and framed the launch as setting a new standard for crypto protection in Europe. No additional details on eligibility, scope, or claims procedures were disclosed in the brief announcement.

RootData’s August review of OKX Boost showed the platform launched nine campaigns during the month, drawing about 74,000 cumulative participations and distributing a total prize pool of $2.02 million, up slightly from $1.908 million in July. The report highlighted the debut of X Liquidity, a new format focused on DeFi staking and liquidity incentives on X Layer. Its first round offered $300,000, and the first two rounds together distributed more than $500,000. Over the same period, DefiLlama data cited in the report showed X Layer’s total value locked rising from $100 million in July to $200 million. RootData also pointed to continued growth in X Layer RWA activity, with OKX Wallet saying on Aug. 20 that daily active trading addresses for X Layer RWA had reached a record high. By sector, AI remained the dominant theme in August, accounting for 60% of project activities, while KiiChain, GRVT and DappOS stood out in RootData’s transparency rankings.

Peach, a trading aggregator and asset issuance platform on Arc, said it will begin continuously tracking the post-graduation market performance of assets launched through Peach Launchpad and select up to five projects with the strongest trend performance for the next round of the Peach Campaign run with OKX Wallet. The selection criteria will include market cap or fully diluted valuation (FDV), trading activity, growth in holder addresses, social discussion levels, and overall market performance. Peach said the focus will be on how projects perform after graduation rather than judging them only by issuance-stage data. Selected projects will move into a dedicated next-stage campaign and receive additional market exposure and trading activity support. Peach has not disclosed a launch date or full rules for this campaign round.

SlowMist and the OKX security team said their joint analysis found that FomoPeek, an on-chain whale-tracking app distributed through Apple’s App Store, included a full iOS kernel attack framework in versions 1.1 and 1.2. According to the report, users did not provide mnemonic phrases and did not sign any transactions, yet their assets could still be stolen. SlowMist’s MistTrack data showed a main hacker address active since Sept. 15 that had received 579,984.34 USDT as of publication, with funds still flowing in. The researchers said the malicious components were shipped inside the official App Store builds rather than spread through re-signing or sideloading, and that the framework could communicate with attacker-controlled servers, exploit kernel flaws, escape the sandbox, decrypt Keychain data and collect information across apps. The report also said the command-and-control server targeted 19 wallet and note-taking apps, including Gate Web3, SafePal, OKX Wallet, MetaMask, Trust Wallet, imToken, TokenPocket, TronLink and Apple Notes. SlowMist advised users who installed versions 1.1 or 1.2 to treat old mnemonic phrases and private keys as compromised and move assets to a newly created wallet on a clean device.

On Sept. 22, BlockBeats cited on-chain tracker EmberCN as saying that a whale or institutional holder recently fully exited a 31.4 million CRV position that had been held for about three years. The address accumulated the tokens between 2023 and 2024 by withdrawing them from Binance over time, with total spending of about $15.13 million and an average entry price near $0.48 per token. Over the past two weeks, the same address transferred the CRV to OKX and sold the position at an average price of about $0.35. Based on those figures, the realized loss came to roughly $4.1 million, or 27%. The report did not identify the owner of the address, describing it only as a whale or institution.

OKX said it will host a product launch event called OKX Now in Singapore on Oct. 6, according to a Techub News update citing the exchange’s official announcement. The event is set to showcase OKX’s latest products, with presentations from builders involved in the projects. In its announcement, OKX said the future of markets and money is taking shape and that it is helping build that future. The company added that more details about the event will be released later this week. The notice did not include additional information on the product lineup or the speaker roster.

OKX founder Star Xu said in an interview with Merov Crypto that he misjudged Ethereum in its early days. Recalling an exchange from 2017, Xu said Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin had approached him about listing ETH, but he responded at the time by calling it a "junk coin." Xu said that view turned out to be a mistake. He attributed the misjudgment to becoming overly conservative after successfully listing Litecoin. In the same interview, Xu also discussed the development of OKX’s unified trading account and multichain wallet. He said product building should start from user needs, with a focus on improving capital efficiency and user experience, while staying close to customers to keep refining the platform’s products. The remarks were cited by Techub, which referenced @WuBlockchain.

OKX said it has added trading for more than 70 tokenized U.S. stocks and ETF perpetual contracts in its new funding application, according to a Techub News update citing @okx. The rollout also includes a trading bot feature. The product is open to users in compliant regions. OKX said the offering is designed to provide on-chain trading and hedging tools tied to traditional financial assets. No further product details, launch timetable, or market list were disclosed in the brief update. The announcement links tokenized equity exposure with perpetual contract trading inside the platform’s new funding application, expanding the set of instruments available to eligible users. Techub categorized the item under market analysis.