Author: RootData
OKX Boost, as the "outpost" of the OKX main site liquidity market, provides a highly transparent participation channel for ordinary users to capture quality projects. Therefore, RootData continuously tracks the monthly dynamics of OKX Boost to help users uncover more quality project opportunities and Web3 market trends.
From September to October, OKX Boost utilized three main features: X Launch, X Trade, and X Liquidity, covering project trading incentives, themed trading competitions, and DeFi liquidity incentives. Among them, X Launch completed a mechanism upgrade in mid-September, further lowering the participation threshold. The overall incentive scale of the activities has significantly rebounded, and the pace has accelerated. Specific observations are as follows:
1. Participation Scale and Prize Pool: Nearly 9 million dollars distributed in the past two months; X Launch mechanism upgrade open to all users
From September to October 2026, OKX Boost launched a total of 29 X Launch and X Trade events, and multiple staking and LP incentive activities for X Liquidity continued to be introduced.
The total participation scale of all activities was approximately 300,000 participants, with a total prize pool of nearly 9 million dollars. This is a significant increase compared to the approximately 2 million dollars monthly average prize pool between July and August, comparable to the peak levels in May and June, reflecting the platform's renewed commitment to incentivizing quality projects. Notable highlights include:
First, the X Launch mechanism upgrade has increased both the activity pace and participation scale. In mid-September, X Launch removed existing trading volume and balance eligibility thresholds, opening it up to all users. After registering, users can participate in the reward distribution by accumulating effective trading volume of specified tokens through trading activities according to the event rules.
After the mechanism upgrade, the launch pace of X Launch has noticeably accelerated, with 15 events launched over two months, covering 8 new projects (some projects launched multiple events), with total rewards exceeding 5.5 million dollars; the number of participating addresses per event has stabilized above 10,000, with single event participation addresses for Concrete, Canopy, Doppler Finance, etc., exceeding 16,000.
Regarding the prize pool, the all-stack on-chain financial operating system Concrete leads the bi-monthly with approximately 1.369 million dollars as the single event prize pool, while NeoSoul's prize pool reached 600,000 dollars.
Second, X Trade continues to innovate its themes, with a focus in the last two months primarily on tokenized stocks, and reward forms have expanded from online tokens to offline scenarios.
From September to October, X Trade launched 14 themed trading competitions, with a total prize pool of 1.54 million dollars, covering tokenized stocks, leveraged trading, and popular ecosystems like Robinhood and Arc.
The tokenized stock trading competition on X Layer continues, with multiple themed competitions centered on Crypto Stocks, the Tech Seven Giants, Q3 Earnings, and Earnings; paired with the launch of OKX Wallet leveraged trading products, X Trade simultaneously introduced leveraged trading incentive activities.
In terms of reward forms, the TRUMP trading competition introduced offline experience rights in addition to the 200,000 dollars in token rewards: the first place in the ranking can receive 1,500 TRUMP and VIP tickets for the 2026 F1 Singapore event, covering three days of watching, hotel accommodation, and related activities, marking the first time Boost has extended rewards to offline scenarios.
Third, X Liquidity continues to operate, establishing a norm for X Layer DeFi incentives. X Liquidity remains focused on staking earning and liquidity incentives in the X Layer ecosystem, with nearly 2 million dollars in rewards distributed over two months, of which single asset staking activities (PT-USDG, Aave, etc.) totaled 890,000 dollars, and LP incentive activities (RWA MEME, mainstream tokens, etc.) totaled 1.1 million dollars, with a total of 15,000 participating addresses, indicating the liquidity incentives in the X Layer ecosystem have become mechanized and normalized.
2. Transparency: All projects rank in the top 18% by RootData
From September to October, the 8 new projects launched by X Launch all received B ratings (highly transparent) or above in RootData’s transparency ratings, outperforming more than 82% of projects on the platform, with an average that surpasses about 91% of the projects, indicating a generally strong level of information disclosure among the top tier of the platform.
Among them, NeoSoul, which builds an operating system for the Agent economy, achieved an A rating for excellent transparency, outperforming 98% of projects on the platform, ranking in the top 2%; the on-chain asset management platform Lorenzo Protocol also received an A rating, outperforming 95% of projects on the platform. Concrete surpassed 93% of projects, while ZIG Finance, Canopy, Doppler Finance, and Cluster all outperformed over 87% of projects on the platform, and Axis Robotics surpassed 82% of projects on the platform.
These projects demonstrate balanced performance across dimensions such as basic information, operational business, financial performance, and disclosure activity, with key information like project progress, financing background, token economics, and unlocking arrangements being disclosed in a relatively complete manner.
Compared to previous periods, the new projects from September to October achieved a first-time performance with all ranking in the top 18% of the platform, with multiple projects outperforming by over 90%, reflecting the sustained strict standards of OKX Boost for project information disclosure.
3. 75% of projects have launched on OKX main site
As of publication, 75% of the 8 X Launch projects launched in September and October have successfully launched on the OKX main site (perpetual contracts or spot), with 37.5% having launched both perpetual and spot contracts. The binding degree between X Launch and project schedule has deepened further.
According to OKX Boost leaderboard data, Boost has cumulatively launched 114 projects, of which 55 have launched OKX perpetual contracts and 34 have launched OKX spot. Boost’s capacity for screening and delivering projects as the "outpost" of the OKX main site liquidity market continues to be validated.
Furthermore, cross-referencing transparency performance with graduation status: the transparency ratings for the 6 graduated projects are all above B (highly transparent), averaging better than about 90% of projects on the platform, indicating that high transparency in information disclosure has become a "foundation" for Boost projects to launch on the main site.
4. Trends: AI and on-chain finance each represent half
From the distribution of tracks for new projects launched in September and October through X Launch, AI and on-chain finance/RWA each account for 50%.
Four projects in the AI direction cover multiple levels of the Agent economy: Axis Robotics builds a self-evolving data engine for embodied intelligence, NeoSoul builds an operating system for the Agent economy, Canopy is a development framework for AI agents, and Cluster Protocol serves as an orchestration layer for autonomous private AI workflows, forming a complete coverage from data, operating systems to development frameworks and orchestration layers.
In the on-chain finance/RWA direction, four projects focus on institutional-level use cases: Doppler Finance builds infrastructure for tokenized capital markets, Concrete creates a full-stack on-chain financial operating system covering crypto assets and RWA for institutions, Lorenzo Protocol is an on-chain asset management platform, and ZIG Finance aims to bring institutional-level investment opportunities on-chain.
On the X Trade side, themed trading competitions further validate the strategic weight of RWA and the X Layer ecosystem: multiple tokenized stock themed competitions continue to be held, with trading competitions in ecosystems like Robinhood and Arc being launched one after another, indicating that Boost is continuously becoming an important lever for OKX in promoting the X Layer ecosystem and RWA strategy.
Conclusion
Overall, OKX Boost in September and October showed three trend changes:
First, after the upgrade, the X Launch mechanism is fully open, with the activity pace and single-event participation scale both increasing, while project transparency and graduation rates remain at a high level.
Second, the incentive strength has returned to a high level for the year, with a total prize pool of nearly 9 million dollars over the two months, and the forms of rewards have expanded from tokens to offline rights scenarios;
Third, the quality of newly added projects is stable, with transparency all ranking in the top 18% by RootData, with clear main lines of AI and on-chain finance/RWA. As the incentives for the X Layer ecosystem normalize and themed trading competitions like tokenized stocks continue to be held, Boost's positioning as the "outpost" of the OKX main site liquidity market is being continuously strengthened, and its new model and project quality are worth further tracking.
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