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Erald Ghoos
OKX Europe CEO
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Unlock the Value in Your Crypto Without Selling It
By Erald Ghoos, CEO, OKX Europe Throughout their lives, people have three fundamental financial needs. To pay, or get paid. To grow their wealth. And to borrow, when they need to. Borrowing is one of the biggest businesses in finance. Almost everyone needs to access money beyond their savings at some point in their life. Households in the euro area owe their banks more than €7 trillion, most of it in mortgages. Worldwide, loans backed by crypto add up to about $56 billion. That enormous gap tells you how early crypto still is when it comes to loans.
Oct 16, 2026
OKX
Security
Setting a new standard for crypto account security
By Erald Ghoos, CEO of OKX Europe Today, we launch OKX Shield in Europe: up to €500,000 in account protection, with no subscription or activation fee. We're taking greater responsibility for customer protection, and putting our own money behind it.
Sep 22, 2026
Trading
Derivatives
Futures
European traders shouldn't need two apps to trade bitcoin and NVIDIA
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.
Sep 10, 2026
OKX
Crypto Cards are Going Mainstream in Europe, and OKX Card Volume is Surging
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?
Aug 21, 2026
OKX
Futures
Trading
X-Perps: Our Regulated Crypto Derivatives are Live in Europe
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.
Aug 15, 2026
Industry news
OKX
Regulation
Europe's Crypto Reset Is Working
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.
Aug 4, 2026
OKX
Regulation
Industry news
The Great Crypto Migration Has Begun
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.
Jul 28, 2026
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