I trade on OKX ten hours a day. In Singapore, they asked me what to fix.

By Julien, That's my Quant, trader and co-founder of Merov

The screen behind me read "VIP Perspectives: What Serious Traders Need Next". In front of me sat OKX's product managers, there to hear exactly that. OKX had invited me to Singapore for TOKEN2049 week. On stage, they introduced our panel as three of their most valued traders.

TOKEN2049 puts the whole industry in one place for two days: exchanges, funds, builders and institutions. My days were back-to-back meetings with traders and teams I had only known through a screen, between panels on market structure, privacy and on-chain derivatives.

The day before TOKEN2049, OKX hosted OKX Now. Star Xu, OKX's founder and CEO, opened with a simple thesis: messaging, transport and video are now instant and global, yet money still runs on infrastructure built decades ago. Vitalik Buterin followed, reminding the room that the technology is still improving fast and is far from mature. Then the OKX team showed where the product is heading: crypto and real-world assets in one trading experience, and AI agents connected directly to your account. Later in the week, Star hosted a small group of us for dinner at OKX's Singapore office.

Gracie Lin, OKX's Regional CEO for Singapore and Australia, moderated. Beside me: vct and Andrew Zhou. The first question: how have you adapted to this market? My answer: AI now lets me process far more data than before, so this cycle my approach is built around order flow. The second was about product feedback. OKX is the only exchange I have traded on where product people join VIP dinners to ask traders what they would change. I am in a direct group chat with members of the product team. When I flagged how TWAP orders (a large order split into small slices over time) were behaving, it got fixed.

OKX is a McLaren F1 partner. On the Friday, Louis Tam, VP of Strategic Markets, took us into the McLaren paddock. Ninety minutes before the sprint, we watched the mechanics strip the car down and rebuild it. On Sunday, we watched the race from the OKX rooftop above the circuit. I have long compared a trading system to an F1 car. A driver adapts to grip, tyres and weather on every lap. A trading system has to adapt to the market the same way.

OKX brought together VIP traders from across Europe, Asia and Australia, including a strong group from Germany. Over dinner on the first evening, traders shared how they were positioned, from grid bots (which buy and sell automatically across a set price range) to hedging. Later in the week, at OKX's Singapore office, I sat down with Didi, a German trader, to compare how we each manage risk. These were frank, technical conversations between people who trade every day. They did not stop when the conference did. Even the commutes turned into strategy sessions.

What struck me most was the intensity and openness of the people behind the platform: product, business development, the institutional team and the local teams. In the paddock, I interviewed Louis Tam, who told me that around 70% of OKX's roadmap now comes from its community. My experience matches: feedback I sent on grid bots shipped within a few weeks.

For me

• Direct access. I now know the people who read my feedback, and they know how I trade. A message to the product team has become a conversation.

• Early product knowledge. I saw OKX's roadmap before most of my community had heard of it. When these products launch, I can explain them properly.

• Network. Traders from Germany, Asia and Australia, and executives across the industry, I now speak to directly.

Viewers followed TOKEN2049, OKX Now, the panel and the paddock day by day, with the trading alongside: how I manage positions on the road, like moving a stop to break-even once a trade is working, so a winner cannot turn into a loss. Oscar Piastri also signed caps, which went to members of our community.

Julien, known as That's my Quant, is a crypto trader and co-founder of Merov. He runs a prop trading firm and trades live every weekday at 2 pm Paris time on Merov Crypto, Merov's YouTube channel in French, with a focus on order flow.

• YouTube (live every weekday): youtube.com/@merovcrypto

• Singapore vlog: youtu.be/2H9LcHVoNWc?si=Qh5pMh1YMDL1vlWX

• Instagram: @thatsmyquant

• Website: merov.com

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