The beautiful game deserves a beautiful prediction experience.
No deposits.
No risk.
Just your football knowledge, free XP, and the excitement of proving the market wrong. ⚽️🚀
€10M disappeared faster than we expected.
That tells us something important:
Users are looking for more than incentives.
They’re looking for a trusted, regulated platform they can build with for the long term.
Thank you, Europe. We’re just getting started. 🇪🇺🚀
🚀 Challenge accepted.
Whoever becomes the first One Person Company (OPC) to generate US$1 million in annual revenue on https://t.co/dG1DZxnKQy, I will personally donate X BTC to celebrate the milestone. (X ≥ 1)
Every major technological revolution creates new entrepreneurs.
I believe the AI era will create millions of OPCs.
Let’s build the future together.
The first million-dollar OPC will become part of AI history.
The @OKX AI Genesis Hackathon is live.
Build an Agent Service Provider for https://t.co/kTSy0eEULN and compete for a share of $100,000 in prizes.
We’re looking for agents that solve real problems and generate real usage.
More details 🧵👇
The agent economy is not just a narrative.
It needs real infrastructure:
Agent identity.
Task marketplace.
Trustless escrow.
Onchain payments.
Reputation systems.
Dispute resolution.
When AI agents can discover work, hire each other, get paid, and build trust, a new economic system begins.
This is what https://t.co/dG1DZxnKQy is building.
Amongst all the MiCA deadlines happening, @OKX just quietly launched something bigger than most people realize.
https://t.co/UrWW7RSqK0 - the first A2A (agent-to-agent) economy. AI agents that find work, hire other agents, and get paid onchain. No human in the loop.
How it works:
- Post a task with a budget and deadline
- Agents bid, the best one delivers
- Payment settles instantly in stablecoins on X Layer through trustless escrow
- Disputes? Evaluators stake $OKB and vote. Vote right = get paid. Vote wrong = lose your stake.
Here's why this matters: AI agents can't open bank accounts. Stripe and PayPal require a human with an ID. Crypto rails are the only payment system agents can natively use - which is why every serious agent-economy experiment ends up onchain.
And $OKB just got a real utility sink: staking to arbitrate an entire AI labor market.
Their tagline says it all: "One person, one company, $1M a year."
The agent economy narrative is loading. Exchanges are building the infrastructure before the market prices it in.
But the richest man keeps pushing the narrative that October 11 had nothing to do with them, just as they always do.
No matter what facts or publicly available evidence are presented—including the company’s guilty plea in the U.S.—they simply deny or dismiss them. Accountability is never the response.
Instead of facing the problems, acknowledging what happened, and strengthening their risk controls, they accuse anyone who raises legitimate questions of being “jealous.” 🤣
🚨 BINANCE'S OWN EX-CFO SAYS OCT 10 BROKE THE MARKET
USDe: $0.65 on Binance. $1 everywhere else. Same asset, same second.
Binance priced collateral off its own thin order book no external oracles.
One flaw. $19B liquidated. 1.6M traders gone.
CZ calls it "far-fetched." His own ex-CFO disagrees.
Trust is the foundation of every financial market.
Once trust is damaged, rebuilding it takes years—not days.
October 11 was a painful reminder that responsibility, transparency, and sound risk management are essential to protecting users and the long-term health of the industry.
Prioritizing short-term corporate interests over users, governance, and market integrity ultimately harms everyone—including the company itself.
The crypto industry deserves better.
Former Binance CFO Wei on why crypto is still in a bear market:
'ALL the whales got nuked going into Uptober on Oct 10/11. Lack of transparency from Binance... so people still don’t 100% trust their system won’t crash again if Trump makes another statement on a weekend.'
Binance’s issues turned a normal dip into a liquidation bloodbath for the big players. Trust is gone.
Eight years ago, in 2018, OKX began building our European business.
Over the past eight years, we have invested heavily in products, technology, governance, risk management, and regulatory engagement. We have worked closely with regulators across Europe to help shape the next generation of digital finance.
The journey has not always been perfect. Like every fast-growing company, we have encountered gaps, made mistakes, and faced intense regulatory scrutiny. When that happened, we addressed the issues, accepted responsibility, learned from them, and strengthened our controls and governance.
Today, OKX is proud to be the first company in the European Union to receive a MiCA licence, while also holding authorization for the broadest range of regulated crypto services under the MiCA framework.
Compliance is not just about obtaining a licence. It is about building a culture where governance, risk management, transparency, and customer protection are embedded into every decision we make.
We have invested significantly in building one of the industry’s strongest control frameworks and continue to work closely with independent external auditors to demonstrate the effectiveness of our governance and compliance systems.
Today, European users can access EUR on-ramp and off-ramp services, zero-fee stablecoin payments through the Mastercard network, hundreds of crypto spot trading pairs, and a comprehensive suite of crypto, commodity, and equity derivatives. We have also launched an AI-native Agentic infrastructure that enables customers to interact with our platform through AI agents, with many more innovations already in development.
Transparency has always been a core principle for us. We were the first major global platform to publish Proof of Reserves continuously for more than 40 consecutive months, helping establish what has since become an industry standard. Our Group financial statements are also audited by a Big Four accounting firm, reinforcing our commitment to financial governance and accountability.
Today, hundreds of OKX employees across Europe are building products and services for millions of users.
Our ambition goes far beyond becoming another crypto exchange.
We are building the financial infrastructure for the next generation of digital finance—bringing together crypto, traditional assets, payments, AI, and on-chain financial services on a single regulated platform.
This is only the beginning. Europe will continue to be one of the most important regions for OKX, and we remain committed to investing, innovating, and building here for decades to come.
You NEED to watch this video if you ever wondered where the smartest agents will live. OKX built the fastest way to for agents to not only hire each other and find work, but negotiate rates, escrow payments, settle disputes, and build trust scores on chain! Here's how to get started with @OKX AI
No matter what facts you present, they simply deny them. Instead of addressing the evidence, they choose to mislead the public with false claims.
Rather than correcting their shortcomings and improving their compliance, they appear to ignore regulations, look for loopholes, and rely on tactics instead of accountability.
Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, failed to obtain a license to operate in the EU after a key regulator expressed concerns about its history of financial-crime violations https://t.co/2VmdxOqdhs
People asked me why are we in a crypto bear market:
1. ALL the whales got nuked going into Uptober on Oct 10/11
2. Lack of transparency from Binance (see below), so people still dont 100% trust their system wont crash again if Trump makes another statement on a weekend. (We need a 9-5 president)
3. Bull run in AI Hardware, so much easier to make money there
People also ask me when bull market:
1. When Google and Facebook launch their own blockchain for developers to launch tokens
2. Need Clarity Act to pass first for 1 to happen
3. China loosens its noose
This is not the truth. It is easy to verify the facts.
As of today, the so-called “affected users” are limited to the jurisdictions where Binance has chosen to implement these restrictions: Italy, Spain, France, Poland, Belgium, and Sweden.
Users in the rest of the EEA can still sign up, deposit, and trade.
Binance appears to have chosen to ignore ESMA’s public statements and prioritize its business interests over regulatory compliance. This raises an important question about the consistent application of MiCA across the EEA and how cross-border compliance expectations should be enforced.
LATEST: MiCA takes full effect today.
@Binance halts new EU sign-ups, deposits and Earn products as @Coinbase, @OKX and @Gate compete for displaced users with deposit bonuses of up to 10%.
So will the UK FCA, the MAS in Singapore, and the EU’s ESMA invite Binance back? Or will they allow Binance to acquire a licensed company and bypass the same level of regulatory scrutiny, as it did in Japan?
Safeguarding customer funds is not something to boast about every day. It is a basic requirement for any platform.
Regulatory arbitrage and intentionally ignoring laws and regulations are new dangerous FTX patterns that can create serious harm for the industry and customers, as we saw on October 11, when millions of users globally lose billions of dollars just because of one company’s failure of risk control.
CZ on Binance's regulatory scars and Why he's not worried
🇯🇵 Japan banned Binance in 2018.
By 2023, Binance had a full license and SoftBank as a shareholder.
🇸🇬 Singapore forced Binance out in 2021.
Users fled to FTX. We all know how that ended.
🇪🇺 On Europe: "It's a loss for Binance. It's also a loss for Europe. It's a lose-lose situation."
Binance is the most scrutinized Exchange in crypto and also one of the most compliant.
Get banned. Get compliant. Get invited back.
History says Binance has done this before.
Pressure today. Licenses tomorrow. That's the Binance pattern.
@cz_binance@heyibinance@_RichardTeng@cz_binance
With OKX AI, we’re building the infrastructure that enables AI agents to discover services, establish trust, coordinate with one another, and participate in the digital economy.
It’s exciting to see global leaders like Mastercard investing in the AI era. The future of commerce will be shaped by collaboration across AI, payments, finance, and blockchain.
As AI agents begin to act, payments move into the background — at machine speed and massive scale.
Today we’re introducing Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines — bringing structure, governance, and trust to this new class of payments.
Launching with 30+ partners to bring this to life from day one.
This isn’t just more payments. It’s a new operating model for commerce.
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I don’t know how Grok learned about these facts.
This was never about personal rivalry.
It has always been about facts, integrity, standing up against the intentional violation of laws and regulations, and protecting the future of our industry.
Competition is healthy. Spreading false information is not.
I have no interest in personal attacks. I do have an interest in correcting the record when false narratives affect users, trust, and the credibility of the crypto industry.
It's a long-running personal + business rivalry.
Star Xu (star_okx) founded OKCoin (OKX predecessor). CZ worked there briefly in 2014-15 before launching Binance. Old 2015 disputes over contracts (Star claims CZ forged docs; CZ said his account was hacked) and Roger Ver issues never fully died.
CZ's April 2026 memoir "Freedom of Money" revived it. Star publicly called CZ a "habitual liar," denied claims (incl. about Huobi's Leon Li), and resurfaced old evidence.
CZ fired back with a $1B bet offer on his divorce status and other points. Star rejected it as unprofessional for regulated exchange leaders and questioned Binance stake separation.
Classic crypto founder beef: history + competition + public X drama. Both sides have receipts and versions.