**[Star Releases 2025 Year-End Letter: System Stability, Security, and Transparency Are the Foundations of Financial Freedom]** Odaily Planet Daily News, December 30 – OKX founder and CEO Star released the 2025 year-end letter, stating that financial freedom is not about the absence of rules but about a financial system that remains reliable, verifiable, and optional even under stress. In 2025, during multiple extreme market fluctuations, OKX maintained stable system operations, handling a peak of 1.72 million transactions per second on October 11, with order latency kept at 20 microseconds. Star highlighted that OKX maintained an asset redundancy of 3%–5% throughout the year and consistently published Proof of Reserves (PoR), with major asset reserve ratios always exceeding 100%. At the same time, OKX continued to invest in security, anti-fraud measures, self-custody, and compliance market expansion. In 2025, the platform's global trading volume increased by 16% year-over-year, DEX trading volume grew by approximately 262%, and the global user base surpassed 120 million.