Originally, OKEx was traded under the name OKCoin and the brand change to OKEx took place in May 2017. Initially, the exchange focused on supplying the Asian market and has since expanded to serve clients in over 100 different countries. This expansion strategy translated the Chinese-translated OkEx site into English and recently focused on clients outside China.
Currently, OKEx has the second highest cryptocurrency exchange volume in the world and is not far from challenging Binance for first place. This means that some of the cryptocurrency markets offered by OKEx are the largest in the world