Benson Sun|Jan 24, 2026 09:51
This time, Old Xu @ star_okx said a lot of down-to-earth words and many memes at the meeting, so I won't go into detail.
One of the memorable moments was when many people failed in their Web2 entrepreneurship and wanted to come to the cryptocurrency industry to make money, even raising funds from him. Lao Xu directly cursed back, 'What qualifications do you have? If you have failed in other places, you can succeed in this circle? Do you think Web3's money is easy to make?'? ''
When I heard this sentence, I actually had some feelings.
The early industry dividends in the cryptocurrency circle were very exaggerated, and due to the lack of regulation, many people were short-sighted and always liked to do things that kill the chicken to get the egg.
Now that the industry has reached this stage of development, many early money making giants are playing around, and some projects have never been updated after harvesting leeks.
It is also because of this trend that there is the phenomenon that Old Xu talked about: people think it is easy to make money and raise funds here, and they want to cut off a wave and run away.
So I have always admired someone who, after reaping early dividends in this industry, is willing to stay and do things that seem unrelated to making money.
OKX is one of them.
They have been funding Bitcoin developers since 2019, accumulating nearly $2 million to support the development of Bitcoin Core and the Lightning Network. Last year, it also sponsored the 2140 Foundation, a foundation dedicated to the long-term security of the Bitcoin network.
On the wallet side, we also use MPC and TEE to help users self manage, and open source the signature SDK with over 60 chains and MIT authorization. Anyone can use it.
Doing these things will not make it on the hot search, nor will it increase the price of our own platform currency. But all of this is contributing to the industry.
I'm not saying OKX is perfect, which exchange has no problems? But from these things, I see both long termism and idealism.
This is rare in this circle.
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