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The Exchange That Had to Change Its Name to Keep Moving
Okcoin survived the first great crypto crackdown by leaving its home market. A decade later, its final move was quieter: teaching customers to leave the Okcoin name behind.
WhiteBIT Wants a Place in Your Wallet - and on Your Football Shirt
The Ukrainian-founded crypto exchange is pairing trading infrastructure with debit-card spending and football fandom. Its wager: people will use digital assets more often when they have somewhere familiar to spend them.
Gate sells access. Trust is the harder trade.
Thousands of tokens brought traders through Gate’s doors. A bigger financial supermarket now rests on a harder promise: making all that access worth trusting.
The Exchange That Ripped Its Own Name Off the Wall
It dropped the "E," paid the fine, opened in San Jose, and put its reserves on a Merkle tree. Inside OKX's bet that self-custody - not the exchange - is the actual product.
dYdX
dYdX is a decentralized trading protocol best known for perpetual futures, where traders take leveraged long and short positions on crypto without handing custody to a centralized exchange. Founded by ex-Coinbase engineer Antonio Juliano in 2017, it evolved from an Ethereum DeFi app into its own sovereign Cosmos appchain (dYdX v4) that runs a high-performance, validator-operated order book settled in USDC. The protocol is governed by the DYDX token and, with the 2025 launch of spot trading, opened access to U.S. traders for the first time.