Smart Accounts: Advanced Trading, Full Self-Custody
The OKX DEX pro-trading interface represents a significant evolution from the platform's original basic swap functionality between networks. This upgrade brings advanced charting and new order types into the onchain experience, giving traders access to strategies like limit orders and take-profit/stop-loss (TP/SL) directly within OKX Wallet. But it also surfaced the long-standing pain points that come with executing advanced trades onchain. When traders attempt to run complex strategies onchain, they face two major challenges:
Centralized bots (such as Telegram trading bots) compromise custody Relying on third-party bots means giving up control of your private keys. Your assets are no longer in your wallet, they’re entrusted to a centralized service, which creates serious security risks.
Onchain protocols reduce flexibility and capital efficiency Using fully onchain solutions isn’t much better. First of all, placing or canceling strategy orders comes with high gas fees. Furthermore, technical restrictions mean that you must lock the funds of each order in smart contracts. This ties up capital and reduces your flexibility to use assets elsewhere.
The result? Traders are forced to choose between custody, cost, and efficiency - and often lose on all three.
Our Solution: Smart Accounts
At OKX, we set out to solve this problem by rethinking how advanced strategies are executed onchain. The result is a new account type designed to replace smart contracts for strategy order execution. Smart Accounts are built on industry-standard Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) hardware, provided by third parties. Here’s how it works:
When you authorize TEE to access your private key, it remains inside a secure enclave, keeping your assets self-custodial and protected.
You can pre-authorize trading logic (e.g. “sell ETH at $5,000”), allowing strategies to execute instantly when market conditions are met.
Traders can compose and execute complex orders without the friction of manual signature verification for every transaction.
With OKX Smart Accounts, advanced trading strategies are now accessible without compromising on custody, cost, or capital efficiency. It means having all three:
Security → Your assets stay in your wallet, protected by TEE.
Capital efficiency → No need to lock entire balances in smart contracts.
Speed and flexibility → Strategies execute automatically and reliably, even if you’re offline.
At launch, OKX Smart Accounts support advanced trading across Solana, BSC, Ethereum, Arbitrum, Base, and X-Layer.
First Features
Auto-Sell (TP/SL)
Limit Orders
Copy Trading
Coming Soon
Recurring Buys (DCA)
Trailing Orders
Dev Sell
Snipe Migration
And more ways to trade with automation while keeping self-custody.
Get Started
Open OKX Wallet on desktop or mobile.
Select “Enable Smart Account” from the tooltip or via Manage Wallets.
Follow the setup steps and start trading with automation + self-custody.
Start here to enable smart account on your wallet app.
For detailed setup instructions, visit our Help Centre.
*This content is provided for informational purposes only. It is not intended to provide (i) investment advice or an investment recommendation, (ii) an offer, solicitation, or inducement to buy, sell or hold digital assets, or (iii) financial, accounting, legal or tax advice. Digital assets, including stablecoins and NFTs, are subject to market volatility, involve a high degree of risk, and can lose value. Please consult your legal/tax/investment professional for questions about whether trading or holding digital assets is suitable for you. OKX Web3 Wallet is only a self-custody wallet software service that allows you to discover and interact with third party platforms, and has no control over and is not responsible for the services of such third party platforms. Not all products are offered in all regions. OKX Web3 Wallet and its ancillary services are not offered by OKX Exchange and are subject to the OKX Web3 Ecosystem Terms of Service.
