On January 8th, a HongKong-based cryptocurrency exchange, OKEx, has announced margin trading for both TRON and Bitcoin Cash this week via Twitter and a blog post.

After BitTorrent token (BTT) was announced to be launched on Binance Launchpad this month, TRON experienced a significant price surge. The file-sharing platform was purchased by the TRON Foundation last year.

New Spot Margin trading

OKEx has also launched spot margin trading for BCH/USDT and NCH/BTC (with 3x Leverage), as well as spot margin trading for TRX/USDT and TRX/BTC with (3x Leverage).

TRON and Bitcoin were announced to be supported by the OK PiggyBank. The users now can collect interest from spare tokens that they put into a shared fund. After finishing the beta testing period, the new initiative was launched in late 2018. OKEx also supported Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ether, EOS, XRP, and USDT.

Support Ethereum Hard Fork

A few days ago, reports surfaced on the support by Huobi Global and OKEx for the upcoming Ethereum Constantinople hard fork update. The hard fork is set to go live between 14th -18th January and its goal is to improve the efficiency of Ethereum blockchain.