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Plugin Store Developer Challenge Season 1 is live
Build a Skill. Compete for up to 17.7K USDC. Plugin Store DApp Developer Challenge Season 1 is live. We're rewarding developers who build real, working strategy Skills on Onchain OS — ranked entirely by real trading activity. Your ranking is determined by how traders actually use your Skill. That's it.
May 11, 2026
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Agents can now do real business, not just make payments
Introducing the Agent Payments Protocol - the open standard for agent commerce, by OKX Onchain OS. In the past few months, AI agents moved from answering questions to running workflows, managing business processes, and acting autonomously on behalf of users. The bottleneck shifted from intelligence to commerce - not just paying, but the full cycle of doing business: quoting, negotiating, escrowing funds, metering usage, settling, and resolving disputes (escrow, dispute resolution coming soon).
May 7, 2026
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Your agent's next onchain plugin is one command away
The shift from human-driven to agent-driven is already happening. Onchain plugins exist across the ecosystem - but finding something reliable meant digging through GitHub repos, Discord threads, and personal projects with no single source of truth.
Apr 29, 2026
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Gas Station: Pay gas fees with stablecoins you already hold on OKX Wallet
Gas Station lets you use USDT, USDC, or USDG to pay transaction fees - so your transactions go through even when your ETH or BNB balance is low.
What is Gas Station? Gas Station is a feature in OKX Wallet that lets you pay gas fees using stablecoins. Keep your USDT, USDC, or USDG working across 12 networks - without needing to top up native tokens on each one.
Apr 27, 2026
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Security
Is a paper wallet right for you? The pros and cons of using a paper wallet
When it comes to safely storing your crypto, it’s widely recommended to withdraw your coins from an exchange and store them in a personal wallet, as the crypto industry has a saying — not your keys, not your coins. When it comes to choosing the type of wallet you wish to store your crypto in, there's a wide selection, such as hot wallets or cold storage — which are also known as offline storage wallets.
Nov 25, 2025
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