Estate planning at OKX

How to protect 3 OKX accounts — file death claims

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OKX INC., One Sansome Street, Suite 1400 PMB 6005, San Francisco, CA 94104 (registered US address published at https://www.okx.com/en-us/contact-us.html; it is not a walk-in or claims-intake office)

OKX Support Center

Mailing Address

OKX INC., One Sansome Street, Suite 1400 PMB 6005, San Francisco, CA 94104 (registered US address published at https://www.okx.com/en-us/contact-us.html; it is not a walk-in or claims-intake office)

OKX Support Center — deceased/incapacitated user cases (no standing estate department; OKX assigns one case analyst per request)

Verified Jul 2026

OKX has 3 accounts, each with different rules for what happens when the account holder dies. The right combination of beneficiary designations and trust ownership can keep the entire portfolio out of probate.

Beneficiary management at OKX is handled through direct contact.

OKX provides specific procedures for both proactive estate planning and filing claims after a death.


Frequently asked questions

They can be. Earn and staking balances sit inside the same custodial account and follow the same estate path — no beneficiary designation, court authority required — but they are not always immediately liquid: some positions are term-based or subject to a redemption or unstaking period. Ask the case analyst assigned to your request what is locked, what can be redeemed, and on what schedule, before you write the instruction letter telling OKX what to do with the account. Crypto prices move during the review, and the estate carries that movement, so decide deliberately whether to have assets transferred in kind or closed out.

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