{"id":33177,"date":"2025-06-23T13:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=33177"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:01:55","slug":"okx-considering-u-s-ipo-native-token-sees-9-8-spike-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=33177","title":{"rendered":"OKX &#8216;Considering&#8217; U.S. IPO, Native Token Sees 9.8% Spike: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Crypto exchange OKX is &#8220;considering&#8221; an initial public offering (IPO) with the U.S. as its preferred market, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theinformation.com\/articles\/crypto-hottest-investment-stock-market\">The Information reported on Sunday<\/a>, citing an interview with the firm&#8217;s chief marketing officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will absolutely consider an IPO in the future,\u201d said Haider Rafique, chief marketing officer. \u201cIf we go public, it would likely be in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Reports of Rafique&#8217;s comments brought about a 9.8% jump in OKX&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/coinmarketcap.com\/currencies\/okb\/\">native token OKB<\/a>. From trading just above $50, OKB spiked to $55.11 before falling back to the where it was before the news.  <\/p>\n<p>OKX <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/04\/15\/okx-to-expand-to-the-us-establish-regional-hq-in-california\">established a U.S. headquarters<\/a> in San Jose, California in April, having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/02\/24\/okx-close-to-large-settlement-agreement-with-u-s-regulators-source\">settled charges<\/a> with the Department of Justice for operating in the country without a money transmitting license, for which it agreed to pay a $500 million fine.<\/p>\n<p>Should the Seychelles-based exchange now be weighing up an IPO, it would demonstrate a newfound confidence in its U.S. operations.<\/p>\n<p>Along with OKX, crypto exchanges <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/03\/07\/crypto-exchange-kraken-is-mulling-ipo-in-2026-bloomberg\">Kraken<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/06\/11\/crypto-exchange-bullish-files-for-us-ipo-as-digital-asset-enthusiasm-mounts-ft\">Bullish<\/a> (owned by Bullish Group, which is also CoinDesk&#8217;s parent company) both have plans to go public in the U.S. <\/p>\n<p>Stablecoin issuer Circle (CRCL) completed its long-awaited IPO on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) at the start of this month, with its <a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/quote\/CRCL\/\">shares climbing 675%<\/a> since. <\/p>\n<p>OKX declined to comment when contacted by CoinDesk on the matter.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crypto exchange OKX is &#8220;considering&#8221; an initial public offering (IPO) with the U.S. as its preferred market, The Information reported on Sunday, citing an interview with the firm&#8217;s chief marketing officer. \u201cWe will absolutely consider an IPO in the future,\u201d said Haider Rafique, chief marketing officer. \u201cIf we go public, it would likely be in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-33177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}