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.

Bitcoin and NVIDIA now trade in the same OKX account, off the same balance. So does a position on OpenAI before it goes public.

OpenAI and Anthropic don't have tickers yet. Anthropic raised $65bn in May at a $965bn valuation, and OpenAI closed $122bn in March at $852bn: two of the largest private raises in history. Positions on both have been available offshore and on DeFi platforms for a while. From today, European traders can take a view on a regulated platform instead.

We've opened pre-IPO markets on OKX, starting with Pre-IPO X-Perps on both companies. Long or short on the implied valuation of a private company, up to 10x leverage, in and out whenever you want. Both markets are live with liquidity deep enough to trade at size.

These markets have been largely unavailable to European traders on traditional brokerage and other regulated platforms. So the two most talked-about companies in AI have been, for most Europeans, something to read about rather than something to have a position on. We'll keep adding in-demand Pre-IPO markets as they become relevant.

We've also launched Tokenized Stocks for Europeans. With 100 markets on day one: SpaceX, Google, NVIDIA, Palantir, the SPY and QQQ ETFs, and more added every week. They track the underlying share price and they trade 24/7.

US exchanges open at 15:30 CET and close at 22:00. A European trader's whole working morning runs with those markets shut, and anything breaking after the New York close lands late in our evening. Trading round the clock means you can act on Tuesday's news on Tuesday, or on what happened overnight before the market opens.

You can buy, sell and convert these tokens if all you want is exposure. Or you can work them in a live market, with limit, market, stop, TWAP and Iceberg orders.

A stock position on OKX can collateralise an X-Perps trade. It can sit inside a DCA bot to average in over weeks, or a Grid bot to work a range while you're doing something else. Same order types, same bots and the same margin as the crypto beside it, next to spot, Earn and Pay in a single account. And if you'd rather hold the token yourself, supported tokens can be withdrawn on-chain, including to a self-custody wallet. Keeping that door open is deliberate.European traders shouldn't have to put up with stripped-back products or unregulated platforms to reach the markets they care about. Pre-IPO markets opened in several places this year and European customers were left out of most of them, which pushes people towards venues nobody here supervises. The appetite is not in question: X-Perps volume in Europe has grown fourfold since the beginning of July.

The stock list grows every week. The pre-IPO list grows as new companies get big enough to argue about.One account. Whatever you want to trade in it.

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