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#纽交所母公司授权OKX推出原油合约 This collaboration between OKX and ICE on crude oil perpetual has sparked my desire to share In fact, it has long been nothing new for crypto exchanges to list macro asset and US stock products. Last year, when Gold was popular, a bunch of platforms rushed to list Gold Perpetual; Later, as tensions in the Strait of Hormuz and oil volatility increased, everyone started rushing to buy oil again. Crypto exchanges have a strong product inertia: everything can be sustainable. As long as there is volatility, buzz, and trading demand, it can ultimately be packaged into a USDT margin contract. Therefore, simply listing crude oil is permanent, which is not surprising. Previously, I had been pondering a question: When traditional markets are closed, who is pricing these macro assets traded 24 hours a day? BTC's weekend price movements reflect the actual trading price of BTC's native market. But WTI crude oil fluctuated over the weekend, and the underlying traditional futures market was closed. At this time, the price on crypto exchanges is essentially more like a "weekend expectation market." Market makers certainly quote, but they refer to Friday's closing price, breaking news, geopolitics, OTC quotes, market sentiment, and their own risk exposure. The problem is that the underlying official futures market does not have continuous jumps, so it lacks a complete external anchor for real-time hedging. So these products appear to trade 24 hours a day, but in reality, there is a period in between they are "semi-suspended" defective products. Being able to trade does not mean the price anchor is completely continuous. Having an order book does not mean the underlying hedge market will always exist. There is volatility, and often trading is the expectation gap caused by weekend news. I've always looked forward to trading gold and crude oil on crypto exchanges, but I can't use the logic of trading MEME or BTC short-term trading. Macro assets like crude oil are not just simple candlesticks, but war, shipping, inflation, the US dollar, OPEC, inventories, and global energy games. Looking only at support and resistance, it's easy for macro news to pierce through a single line. So what exactly makes ICE's licensing to OKX special this time? Binance, Bitget, and Hyperliquid can also list crude oil, so why is OKX's ICE authorization worth taking seriously? My understanding is that it's not about whether you can get on the board, Technically, the exchange is not difficult to make a crude oil perpetual on its own. Connect a price source, create an index, design funding rates, leverage, and risk control mechanisms, and then go live. But the real challenge is how to solve the market's platform selection problem: Is the price source authoritative enough? Can the index be recognized by institutions? How do you explain abnormal market conditions? Do market makers dare to offer depth? Do big players and institutions dare to actually come in? This is the meaning of ICE. It is not an ordinary quote, but one of the world's most core commodity trading and data infrastructures. Brent and WTI themselves are the most important benchmark prices in the global crude oil market. So what OKX received this time was not just a "crude oil contract product," but rather integrating ICE, the traditional financial core price benchmark, into the crypto perpetual system. Other platforms can also offer perpetual crude oil trading, but it's more like: I'll make you a crude oil price exposure. This time, OKX is more likely: I packaged the most authoritative energy price benchmark in traditional finance into perpetual contracts that crypto traders can participate in. The difference lies not in technology, but in creditworthiness, compliance, and institutional recognition. This also fits well with the style of Xu Mingxing and OKX over the years. OKX doesn't just rely on "speed" to compete for products; instead, it leans more toward a path of credit, compliance, institutionalization, and infrastructure. This kind of ICE authorization may not be strongly perceived by ordinary retail investors. But for large players, institutions, partners, and market makers, the appeal is completely different. Retail investors care about whether trading is possible, how much volatility there is, and whether fees are expensive. Institutions care about whether the price source is compliant, whether the benchmark is authoritative, whether the risk can be explained, and whether the partner is reliable. So what truly improves ICE authorization is not the retail trading experience, but OKX's credit rating as a global trading infrastructure. This is the real value of the matter. But I think the more imaginative scenario is the weekend trading scenario. The biggest problem for traditional markets like CME, ICE, and NYSE is market closure. In the past, when encountering some sudden macro events, traditional traders could only wait for Monday opening. Knowing the news has changed, knowing the risk price has changed, yet still unable to trade. Crypto exchanges are different; their biggest feature is trading 24/7× without stopping. If crude oil, gold, US stock indices, US dollar indices, US Treasury yields, and even more macro assets are perpetuated in the future, then the real macro risk prices over the weekend may first be reflected in crypto exchanges. This is the most interesting change. Investors outside the circle who care about gold, crude oil, US stocks, the US dollar, inflation, and war risks When he found that traditional markets couldn't move on weekends, but crypto exchanges could trade these macro assets, he had a reason to come in. This is the true entry value for macro asset perpetuation. This gives macro traders outside the circle another reason to enter crypto exchanges. So my summary of this matter is: It's not unusual for crude oil to be perpetually listed on OKX. What truly matters is that ICE's authorization boosts OKX's creditworthiness, the authoritative price benchmark of traditional finance, and begins integrating with the crypto market's 24-hour trading mechanism. With the gradual improvement of gold, crude oil, US stock indices, US Treasuries, and forex, crypto exchanges are no longer just crypto exchanges. It becomes a 24-hour market for global risk assets. This matter was only just beginning. $BZ $CL @Star_OKX @OKX Chinese: @OKX planet

#OKX Officially Launches Exchange OS Many people might not understand what Exchange OS is One picture tells you everything The core is: it opens up the right to build sub-exchanges to everyone, unifying the underlying liquidity and fund settlement. Note: It also benefits $OKB, which is used as collateral when opening an exchange Some people can immediately start building prediction markets for the World Cup in June. @Star_OKX Lao Xu, is my understanding correct? @OKX中文 @OKX星球

$BTC If the overall market index stabilizes at this stage then the opportunity for altcoins has come again Recently, pay more attention to the altcoin market trends.

#在OKX交易美股：AI双雄押哪边？ The clearance of brokers like Tiger and Futu Maybe the government is making you passively sell at the peak Look back after many years To see if that's really the case.

$BTC pierced 74800 then rebounded and reclaimed above 76000, this is a fake breakdown Next is the bulls Striving to push towards new highs If it breaks down below 75000, it will continue to test 73K and 71K But this is a correction within the mid-term uptrend on the daily chart After the correction, it will rise again

Before breaking through 74800, the market will not rebound If it still remains weak after breaking through 74800 It will further look towards 70-71K $BTC

Whose pizza did I eat? I've already thanked them in my Moments Being thought of by someone, who wouldn't be happy? 😁😁

Billionaire Wang Chun's second flight But this time it's a two-year deep space journey, flying past Mars and then returning to Earth My first reaction was, aren't you afraid of accidents? Have all the details been explained in advance? Is it that after reaching a certain level of wealth, one starts to become indifferent to life and death and pursues spiritual fulfillment? If you had billions, would you take such a trip? $BTC #SpaceX递交招股书：首次披露BTC持仓

#美伊30天意向书：Hormuz risk premium narrows. The Supreme Leader of Iran just stated: Uranium can only remain in Iran. This has a significant impact on the negotiations. Oil prices are set to rise again. Gold and Bitcoin are both affected and pulling back. $BTC $XAU $CL