OKX
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Licensing: Genuine licence held (the EU/EEA (MiCA), UAE, and SG)
Audit & reserves: Independently audited, current — see Audits & reserves below
OKX holds a genuine crypto-specific licence covering the EU/EEA (MiCA), UAE, and SG. It first appears in our register on 2024-09-17 and is currently tracked across 34 jurisdictions through 5 legal entities. It also holds an AML-only registration (not a licence) in US and AU.
Countries covered (34)
- 🇦🇺Australia
- 🇦🇹Austria
- 🇧🇪Belgium
- 🇧🇬Bulgaria
- 🇭🇷Croatia
- 🇨🇾Cyprus
- 🇨🇿Czechia
- 🇩🇰Denmark
- 🇪🇪Estonia
- 🇫🇮Finland
- 🇫🇷France
- 🇩🇪Germany
- 🇬🇷Greece
- 🇭🇺Hungary
- 🇮🇸Iceland
- 🇮🇪Ireland
- 🇮🇹Italy
- 🇱🇻Latvia
- 🇱🇮Liechtenstein
- 🇱🇹Lithuania
- 🇱🇺Luxembourg
- 🇲🇹Malta
- 🇳🇱Netherlands
- 🇳🇴Norway
- 🇵🇱Poland
- 🇵🇹Portugal
- 🇷🇴Romania
- 🇸🇬Singapore
- 🇸🇰Slovakia
- 🇸🇮Slovenia
- 🇪🇸Spain
- 🇸🇪Sweden
- 🇦🇪UAE (Dubai & Abu Dhabi)
- 🇺🇸United States
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OKX Middle East Fintech FZE
- Jurisdiction
- UAE
- Regime
- Dubai VARA VASP licence
- Status
- Licensed
- Reference
- VL/23/12/003
- Since
- 2024-09-17
- Activities
- Lending and Borrowing Services Management and Investment Services Exchange Services (including VA Derivatives Trading) Broker-Dealer Services
OKX SG PTE. LTD.
- Jurisdiction
- SG
- Regime
- Singapore MAS MPI licence (DPT)
- Status
- Licensed
- Reference
- 422854-OKX-SG-PTE-LTD
- Since
- —
OKX INC.
- Jurisdiction
- US
- Regime
- US FinCEN MSB registration
- Status
- Registered
- Reference
- 29459694
- Since
- 2025-11-03
OKX AUSTRALIA PTY LTD
- Jurisdiction
- AU
- Regime
- AUSTRAC VASP registration
- Status
- Registered
- Since
- —
Audits & reserves
Hand-researched and checked against the exchange's own current disclosures — "audit" gets used loosely in crypto, so each entry states plainly whether it's a full independent financial audit, a narrower proof-of-reserves attestation by a named third party, or a figure OKX publishes itself with no independent check. Absence of an entry here is not a claim either way.
- Proof-of-reserves attestation 2025-03-31
Hacken — Monthly, recurring for 3+ years
OKX has published a monthly, Hacken-audited proof-of-reserves report for over three consecutive years -- Hacken is an independent blockchain security firm that verifies OKX's holdings via Merkle tree methodology each month. The most recent milestone found was OKX's 29th consecutive report, showing $24.6 billion in primary assets. Like Kraken's, this is a genuine recurring third-party attestation, not a full financial audit.
Sources: OKX's 27th consecutive Proof of Reserves, audited by Hacken ↗ · OKX publishes the 29th Proof of Reserves ↗
What others report
Third-party ratings, not verified by us — each figure links to its original source. Kept separate from the regulator-sourced facts above and the first-party user reports below.
- App Store 22,433 reviews View on App Store ↗ Retrieved 2026-09-02
User reports
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Is OKX the best crypto exchange for you?
There's no such thing as the best crypto exchange in absolute terms — only the best fit for a given person's situation. The right choice for a business that needs a clean, auditable compliance trail is rarely the right choice for an individual just holding a small amount long-term, and both are different again from someone trading derivatives professionally. We don't recommend OKX, or anyone else — we give you what's independently verifiable so you can make that call yourself.
Here's what we've actually verified about OKX, specifically:
- Holds a genuine crypto-specific licence in the EU/EEA (MiCA), UAE, and SG, plus AML-only registration in US and AU.
- Tracked across 34 jurisdictions through 5 legal entities, appearing in our register since 2024-09-17.
- Has a current independent audit or active proof-of-reserves attestation on file — see Audits & reserves below.
- Third-party ratings we track: 4.59/5 on App Store (22,433 reviews) — not verified by us, see What others report below.
None of this tells you whether OKX is right for you — that depends on what you're trying to do, which jurisdiction you're in, your own risk tolerance, and practical details this register doesn't track (fees, product range, day-to-day UX). What it does give you is what's actually checkable, so you're deciding from facts rather than the exchange's own marketing.
Sources: ESMA interim MiCA register (CASPS.csv), retrieved 2026-08-31 — original file · Singapore MAS Financial Institutions Directory, retrieved 2026-09-03 — original file · US FinCEN MSB Registrant Search, retrieved 2026-07-27 — original file · Dubai VARA Public Register, retrieved 2026-09-03 — original file · AUSTRAC VASP Register (VASPR), retrieved 2026-08-18 — original file .