Corrections Log

This round we went back over OKX's partner FAQ, regulators' announcements and the exchanges' own fee pages. The changes:

• What a referral partner can see. The old version said partners "only see aggregated data". Per OKX's partner FAQ, a partner can look up a referred user's trade history by UID and export trading volume, fee and commission data; OKX's published rules say nothing about partners seeing real-name details or asset balances. The privacy page's "no information about you is transmitted to us" line was changed to match.
• Where you check your rebate. Earlier wording (including our 2026-09-15 entry on this page) said the rebate lands in the "Affiliate Center" — that is the partner's own dashboard. As the referred user, you see your rate and payout records under "My Rewards" in your account.
• Not every code is the same. Account features don't depend on which code you use, but partners can set the share passed to referred users within OKX's rules (up to 20%); what you actually get is whatever your sign-up confirmation and "My Rewards" show.
• US and Hong Kong status. OKX's global site doesn't serve US users, but since April 2025 OKX has run an exchange and wallet through a US entity, so the blanket "OKX isn't open to US users" line is gone. OKX withdrew its Hong Kong licence application and stopped centralised trading for Hong Kong in May 2024, so "OKX HK" has been removed from the exchange decision tree and from the Vietnamese page's list of served regions.
• Kraken fees. The old version still used the outdated 0.16% / 0.26% tier. It now reflects Kraken Pro's lowest-volume tier of 0.40% / 0.80% from the official fee page (checked 2026-09); the maker-rebate pairs have a separate schedule and aren't mixed in.
• Who approved the spot ETFs. The old version said "SEC + CFTC approved BTC / ETH spot ETFs". It was the SEC (spot bitcoin ETF listings in January 2024, rules for spot ether ETFs in May 2024); the CFTC oversees futures and other derivatives and did not approve these spot ETFs.
• How our referral link works. The privacy page, the Russian disclaimer and the sign-up guides said a script appends ?invitecode= to the link. The link is actually path-style (/join/<code>) and no such script exists; at sign-up, just check the referral code field.
• Other. The Russian exchange guide gave KuCoin's settlement as $2.97 billion; it is now $297 million, as on the other language versions. An unsourced fraud-share figure was removed from the Kazakh version.

Again, not reader-reported — we found these re-checking our own pages.

We re-checked everything on this site that touches OKX fee tiers, the KYC flow and rebate settlement against OKX's official fee page. The changes cluster into the following:

• The fee-tier tables were rebuilt. The old version listed a set of "pre-VIP" tiers from Lv.0 to Lv.4 — OKX has no such tiers; the step above regular user is VIP 1. Those rows and their rates are gone, and both tables have been re-laid out to VIP 9 using the official spot and futures thresholds and rates.
• The "hold OKB to offset fees" claim is removed. OKX has no such feature at the moment; where fees are concerned OKB is treated like any other token.
• KYC has no levels. The old version said OKX personal verification came in Lv.1 / Lv.2; in reality you fill it in once and submit once. Review time was also changed from "1–2 hours" to "usually a few minutes to a few hours, longer at peak".
• Rebate timing restated. We are withdrawing the "aggregated hourly, credited in real time" wording from our own 2026-04-29 correction on this page — we cannot produce a verifiable source for that cadence. The wording is now: the rebate is settled automatically by OKX into the Affiliate Center, and the timing shown on that page is what counts.
• Withdrawal allowlist and new-address lock are now explained separately. They are two different mechanisms, and running them together made it easy to misjudge whether you can withdraw yet.
• Several unsourced statistics removed. Things like "BTC moved ±10% in a single day N times in year X" or "the futures death rate falls from 80% to 50%" — we could not trace a verifiable source, so they are now qualitative statements with no numbers.
• The order-book worked example was recalculated, with the example amounts updated to current rates.

This batch wasn't reader-reported — we found it going back over our own pages. Fee and process content will be re-checked against the official pages on a regular basis from now on.

Factual error about how OKX rebates settle. Our original copy said the rebate "settles automatically each month", but OKX's Affiliate system actually pays in real time — each hour, OKX aggregates the prior hour's qualifying trades and credits the rebate to the affiliate's "Affiliate Center." It is not a monthly settlement. The error described OKX's real advantage (real-time crediting) as if it were industry-average (monthly), which actually understates OKX. All 9 affected mentions across the site have been corrected.

This is exactly why we keep a public Corrections Log — even when the error happens to favor us (OKX's real mechanism is actually better than we described), the error is still an error and gets corrected publicly.

On the referral code page, the "Your potential benefit" cell originally read "varies (depends on current OKX promotions)". The wording was vague, so we now spell out the fee rebate of up to 20% mechanism directly.

The original referral page title "OKX Referral Code 2026 — How to use it + how to enter it + caveats" was easy to misread as "referral code = 2026." We rewrote the title to put the year and the actual referral string up front.