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CryptoDesk Editorial Team

What kind of OKX guide are you looking for?

Searching "OKX sign up" turns up plenty of filler, screenshots of a UI that no longer exists, and outright scams. CryptoDesk is meant to be the opposite: guides you can follow step by step, with the facts linked to OKX's own pages, and corrected when something changes or turns out to be wrong.

CryptoDesk is an independent third-party site. We are not OKX official, and we are not owned or controlled by OKX. Articles are published under the CryptoDesk Editorial Team byline.

What we do

Three things, nothing else:

  1. OKX how-to guides — sign-up, deposit, first trade, security setup, Auto-Invest (DCA), and Grid Bot, step by step.
  2. Explanations of OKX features and rules — fees, account modes, withdrawals, futures risk — based on OKX's official documentation.
  3. Plain-English referral code documentation — exactly how OKX's affiliate programme works, plus 5 referral-code traps to watch out for.

Everything is free to read. No paywall, no subscription, no "premium tier."

What we don't do

  • No price predictions ("BTC will hit $X by Q4" is not something we write).
  • No signal groups, trade calls, or copy-trading. No Telegram group, no Discord pump room, no "Today's Pick" newsletter.
  • No paid memberships or gated content.
  • No paid promotions from third parties (including any project other than OKX).
  • No coverage of other exchanges in depth — this site is OKX-only.
  • No claims that OKX is better than other exchanges, even though we take part in OKX's referral programme.
  • No pre-allocated tokens, advisor shares, or airdrop kickbacks from any project.

How we pay the bills

CryptoDesk's running costs (servers, domains, data API subscriptions) are paid through the referral commission OKX pays us when readers sign up with our code.

How it works: when a reader signs up with our code and trades, OKX pays a commission to our referral account. The trading fees you pay do not go up because of it; with the code you can get up to 20% off trading fees, subject to OKX's current terms.

How we handle that:

  1. What we write about OKX, and whether a given article mentions the referral code at all, is the editorial team's decision.
  2. OKX does not review or edit our articles.
  3. We write about OKX's problems as well as its features — see, for example, the 2020 withdrawal suspension in Is OKX safe?
  4. If you would rather not use the referral code, go to okx.com directly.

The full affiliate disclosure is on the Disclaimer page.

Why we focus on OKX

We chose to cover OKX only, for two reasons:

  1. Depth. A site covering five exchanges would have to keep every chapter shallow. Covering one lets us go into its menus, fee tiers and settings closely enough that you can follow along with the app open.
  2. What OKX publishes: monthly proof-of-reserves reports with a Merkle tree you can check your own balance against, and Help Center documentation for most of its products (spot, perpetuals, options, Earn, Grid, Auto-Invest), which gives us something concrete to link to.

Why we mix "OKX" and "OKEx"

You'll notice we use "OKX" almost everywhere, and occasionally "OKEx" when referring to older events. This is intentional — they are the same exchange under two different names:

  • OKX — the current brand. All okx.com pages use this name.
  • OKEx — the former name, which still appears in older news coverage.

If you came in through a search for "OKEx" expecting an older platform, you're in the right place — it's the same exchange, renamed.

How articles are chosen, checked and corrected

What we write about

  • OKX in practice — things you actually do on OKX, not other exchanges;
  • Still useful next month — no "what's pumping today" stories;
  • Followable by a beginner — someone new to crypto should be able to follow each step.

We don't write price predictions, airdrop-farming routes, "10x coin" picks, paid project introductions, or anything that invites you into a signals group or a copy-the-master scheme.

Update dates

Each article shows when it was last updated.

Corrections

If you find a wrong figure, an outdated screenshot or a menu name that no longer matches the app, email us. We check it against OKX's current pages, fix the article and update its date.

Contact

Email: [email protected].

We welcome: fact corrections, guide requests, and security / accessibility reports (see security.txt).

We do not respond to: paid promotion pitches, copy-trading requests, or PR releases from projects looking for coverage.

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