OKX protected $1.1B in customer assets and stopped $26M in scams during H1 2026

Running a crypto exchange in 2026 is a little like operating a bank in a neighborhood where everyone is a potential target and the criminals are using machine learning. OKX’s first-half security report, published around July 24, makes that picture vivid: the exchange says it shielded over $1.1B in customer assets across more than 500,000 users between January and June. The number that stands out even more is the $26.3M in scam-related transfers the platform stopped before the money ever left. That is not a recovery story. That is intervention at the moment of attack, which is considerably harder to pull off. What the numbers actually show OKX’s AI-powered detection systems intervened in real time to protect roughly 49,000 customers from threats including compromised devices and social engineering schemes. Across the platform, OKX intercepted more than 5.7 million high-risk transactions during the six-month window. Scams accounted for approximately 17% of those flagged cases, meaning the bulk of the risky activity falls into other categories: hacked wallets, blacklisted addresses, suspicious contract interactions. The exchange also blocked more than 7.3 million attempts to visit haz...