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Keep up with the top industry updates as we present bi-weekly market insights that are important to traders in the institutional space. This week, Kelvin Lam, CFA, Head of Institutional Research for OKX, looks at one top-of-mind issue in this installment: how a recent collaboration between OKX, CoinShares & Komainu marks a significant advancement in institutional crypto trading.

Digital asset trading infrastructure provider Kemet now brings advanced derivatives trading technology to our institutional clients We've partnered with Kemet Trading , the industry's leading digital asset derivatives trading platform for institutions, to provide our institutional clients with access to Kemet's derivative trading infrastructure. The collaboration provides our institutional clients with Kemet's sophisticated position, risk and portfolio management capabilities.

Written by Lennix Lai, Chief Commercial Officer at OKX Today we were pleased to announce that we've officially partnered with Standard Chartered, a leading international cross-border bank, as our third-party crypto custodian for institutional clients. This milestone reflects our commitment to security, innovation, and the future of digital assets.

This edition's Top of Mind with 10x Research explores the institutional embrace of Bitcoin, marking a new era in wealth management. We examine Bitcoin's journey from niche asset to portfolio cornerstone, analyzing the impact of influential endorsements, generational wealth shifts, and the landmark launch of Bitcoin Spot ETFs.

This edition's Top of Mind with 10x Research examines Bitcoin's growing political influence and its performance across U.S. presidencies. We take a look at Bitcoin's strong pre-election year trends, the 2024 election's potential impact, and how rising prices are turning skeptics into advocates.

This edition's Top of Mind with 10x Research covers how the recent Bitcoin halving may have mitigated the typical post-launch sell-off, the shift towards a HODL strategy among large Bitcoin miners, and the positive impact on Bitcoin's price due to reduced supply pressure.

This edition's Top of Mind has 10x Research analyzing upcoming major cryptocurrency payouts from Mt. Gox, Genesis Global, and FTX, and their potential market implications, providing a roadmap of anticipated market flows through the end of 2024.

In this inaugural edition of our Institutional Top of Mind with 10x Research , we delve into the critical role of flows and liquidity in the crypto market, highlighting recent trends in stablecoin volumes and Bitcoin futures activity.

Keep up with the top industry updates as we present bi-weekly market insights that are valuable to traders in the institutional space. In this week's edition, we explore the Federal Reserve's efforts to prevent stagflation by holding interest rates steady for the rest of 2024, and what that means for cryptocurrency prices. We will also look at what institutional investors can do to mitigate risk during this period of heightened volatility.

Today, we're happy to announce the launch of our 'Hybrid Spreads' orderbooks, which enable professional traders and asset managers to execute spread trades between legs of different margin currencies from a single orderbook with zero leg risk and margin efficiencies gained from a delta-hedged atomic execution.

Today, we're happy to announce our strategic partnership with Hidden Road Partners (Hidden Road), the global credit network for institutions. This partnership aims to offer a turn-key experience for Hidden Road's clients, enabling them to execute advanced trading strategies and facilitate delta rolls more efficiently.

Keep up with the top industry updates as we present bi-weekly market insights that are valuable to traders in the institutional space. In this week's edition, Kelvin Lam, CFA, Head of Institutional Research for OKX, delved into one of the recent trending topics in the financial market: Bitcoin reached a new all-time high. He analyzes the major distinctions between the all-time highs observed in 2020 and 2024, aiming to analyze the implications these differences hold for the future trajectory of Bitcoin and market dynamics.

We're happy to announce that we've published our inaugural ' Institutional Basis Trading Report .' The report analyzes the institutional basis trading landscape and strategies, as well as drivers behind the nearly 30% Ethereum (ETH) and Bitcoin (BTC) annualized basis observed towards the end of March 2024.

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Dubai, the UAE, October 18, 2023 - OKX , a leading crypto exchange and Web3 technology company, today announced that futures spreads trading volumes on its Liquid Marketplace , a spot OTC, futures spreads and options liquidity network, reached a record monthly high of US$1.54 billion in September 2023. This achievement represents 62%* of the institutional market share for futures spreads for the month.

We're pleased to announce today that we've launched a world leading collateral mirroring partnership with Standard Chartered. The partnership, which includes participation from Brevan Howard Digital and Franklin Templeton, enables institutional clients to utilise cryptocurrencies and tokenised money market funds as off-exchange collateral for trading. This initiative significantly enhances security and capital efficiency for institutional clients by using a Globally Systemically Important Bank (G-SIB) as the custodian for collateral.

We're happy to announce that we have successfully achieved System and Organization Controls (SOC) 1 Type 2 compliance, confirming that we meet the highest global standards for protecting institutional clients' data and assets.

OKX Institutional has partnered with Autowhale to integrate our market leading MiCA-regulated exchange with Autowhale’s advanced digital asset trading infrastructure. Autowhale offers a holistic solution that combines high-speed trade execution, real-time portfolio management, and advanced algorithmic trading tools—designed to support institutions in deploying and managing custom trading strategies. Autowhale provides a singular, ready-to-use infrastructure product that integrates:

Welcome to our Institutional Top of Mind with 10x Research , with our Macro Shifts series examining the forces reshaping the crypto landscape in 2025. Each analysis offers institutional investors a data-driven perspective on the regulatory environment, political influences, market infrastructure development, and macroeconomic drivers that matter most. Join us as we analyze these macro shifts through an institutional lens, providing deeper insights for sophisticated market participants navigating this rapidly evolving space.

Welcome back to our Institutional Top of Mind with 10x Research , with the kick-off of our Macro Shifts series examining the forces reshaping the crypto landscape in 2025. Each analysis offers institutional investors a data-driven perspective on the regulatory environment, political influences, market infrastructure development, and macroeconomic drivers that matter most. Join us as we analyze these macro shifts through an institutional lens, providing deeper insights for sophisticated market participants navigating this rapidly evolving space.

Keep up with the top industry updates as we present bi-weekly market insights that are important to traders in the institutional space. In this week's edition, Kelvin Lam, CFA, Head of Institutional Research for OKX, sheds light on a pressing concern: the recent geopolitical conflict triggering a "flight to safety" among traders, thereby potentially fueling a rally in Bitcoin.

Welcome to our Institutional Top of Mind with 10x Research , with our Macro Shifts series examining the forces reshaping the crypto landscape in 2025. Each analysis offers institutional investors a data-driven perspective on the regulatory environment, political influences, market infrastructure development, and macroeconomic drivers that matter most. Join us as we analyze these macro shifts through an institutional lens, providing deeper insights for sophisticated market participants navigating this rapidly evolving space.

Keep up with the latest in crypto market commentary as we share the insights from our institutional research partners. In this edition, Presto Research delves into how Bitcoin's MVRV ratio(Market Value to Realized Value) could be used as an analytical lens rather than a predictive tool, with evolving network dynamics such as declining on-chain volume and increasing institutional adoption.

Keep up with the top industry updates as we present bi-weekly market insights that are important to traders in the institutional space. This week, Kelvin Lam, CFA, Head of Institutional Research for OKX, looks at one top-of-mind issue in this installment: how these three key market drivers present a compelling opportunity for crypto assets in Q4.