Crypto exchange OKX has unveiled Orbit, a new social trading feature embedded directly into its mobile app, allowing users to discuss markets, share trade insights, and execute trades from posts in real time. The platform aims to blend social media with trading while providing verifiable performance metrics, addressing long-standing credibility issues in online trading communities.
Orbit – a new social network for traders built on transparency.
1. Follow traders with proven track records or build your own
2. Discuss ideas, execute trades
3. Earn rewards without leaving the chatDiscover: https://t.co/19D4pML8ZG pic.twitter.com/bt5RkCHY9N
— OKX (@okx) March 6, 2026
Real-time performance and market interaction
Orbit allows traders to link posts to assets using cashtags such as $BTC and $ETH, host livestreams, form groups, and display verified trading performance. Users can view a trader’s holdings, total profit and loss, open and closed positions, and leverage across multiple time frames, including 7 days, 30 days, 90 days, and one year.
All metrics are sourced directly from OKX, preventing selective editing or misrepresentation. Access requires identity verification and compliance with KYC and AML regulations, ensuring the platform operates within the same controls as the broader exchange.
Creator rewards and regional availability
OKX is introducing a creator rewards system tied to follower engagement and activity. Traders can earn rewards based on follower trading activity, content creation, livestream participation, and community-building efforts. The initiative reflects a broader trend in crypto platforms to incentivize community-driven engagement.
Orbit will initially be unavailable in the U.S., Europe, Singapore, Australia, and the UAE due to regulatory scrutiny over social trading and investment promotion. OKX says the feature is part of its effort to increase transparency, trust, and interactive engagement in the trading ecosystem, positioning Orbit as a hybrid between social media and crypto trading infrastructure.
By combining verified performance data, social interaction, and trading execution in one app, OKX aims to reshape how retail and professional traders engage with markets and communities in the digital asset space.
The launch reflects a broader push by trading platforms to blend social media with market activity. Social trading platform eToro pioneered the model in 2010 with its OpenBook platform and CopyTrader feature, while crypto exchanges have since introduced similar tools, including Bybit in 2022 and by Binance on its futures platform in 2023.
In a recent development, OKX founder and CEO Star Xu revealed that the company quietly developed a decentralized perpetuals trading platform in 2023 through its Web3 division.
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