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On October 6th, the OKX NOW Global Product and Ecosystem Conference was held in Singapore. OKX founder and CEO Star delivered the opening speech, sharing OKX's development direction from a cryptocurrency exchange to a global fintech platform centered on the integration of the internet, crypto technology, and AI, and outlined its long-term vision for the next generation of users, covering fund holding, payments, investment, and wealth management. Below is the full text of the speech (compiled by AI): 1. We live in a real-time world, and financial infrastructure is still catching up. Good morning, welcome to Singapore. Today, I want to talk with you about OKX NOW—where we are today and where we believe the future of financial services will go. OKX started 13 years ago, initially as a cryptocurrency exchange. But today, our ambitions go far beyond that. The internet has changed the flow of information, crypto technology is transforming the flow of value, and AI is transforming intelligent scaling. We believe these three technologies are now moving toward convergence and reshaping the next generation of finance. Look at the things around us: we can send a message to someone on the other side of the world in one second; open an Uber and wait for a car in minutes; watch live broadcasts from another country on TikTok or YouTube. Almost all mainstream consumer technologies have already achieved globalization and instant access, available 24/7. However, today's finance