Erald Ghoos

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.

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?

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.

Authored by Erald Ghoos, CEO of OKX Europe Last week I wrote about the great crypto migration underway since MiCA's deadline, and about the difference between a licence and a proof. This week I want to build on that, because I think there's a genuinely good story here that gets buried whenever the industry has a rough news cycle: trust in this space isn't fragile, it's compounding. Every year there are more ways for users to check for themselves that a platform is what it says it is, and fewer places left for platforms to hide if it isn't.

Authored by Erald Ghoos, CEO of OKX Europe For years, choosing a crypto exchange was mostly a matter of brand recognition and liquidity. In the space of a single month, that calculus has changed completely, and millions of users are looking for a new home right now.

Today we're increasing our European deposit bonus pool to €50 million. The original allocation was almost fully claimed within 48 hours. That’s encouraging because it reflects what we’re seeing across the region: customers increasingly want regulated platforms with a complete product offering.