Crypto Exchange OKX moves to the Australian Self -Managed Super Coat Sector

OKX is making an impulse to the Australian retirement market, even though Crypto remains a remarkably small component.

On Sunday, the exchange announced a platform for self -managed retirement funds or SMSF.

These private retirement vehicles allow small people and groups to manage their own savings directly, offering an alternative to the industry and retail funds that still dominate the Australian pension system.

“The adoption is already much higher than many realize: SMSF Crypto Holdings has grown seven times since 2021, with $ 1.7 billion (US $ 1.1 billion) to $ 1.8 billion (US $ 1.2 billion) now invested,” said Kate Cooper, CEO of OKX Australia, said Decipher.

Cooper said OKX developed the platform in consultation with trust and industry professionals, with characteristics such as custody, multiple firm’s safety and reservation test reports in 22 tokens.

“It is not about pursuing a trend; it is about providing a serious infrastructure for SMSF trusts that choose to include digital assets in their portfolios. The Australian SMSF trusts handle more money than most sovereign wealth funds. They deserve business level solutions,” he added.

OKX states that the new expansion is designed to give individual and corporate trusts a direct path to add cryptography to retirement portfolios.

Add infrastructure that specifically addresses the SMSF requirements, including the end -of -year reports for audits, compliance verifications and exchange services recorded in Austrac.

Digital assets have become the fastest growing retirement portion, with SMSF cryptographic assignments 746% between March 20, 2020 and March 2025, according to data from the OKX statement. In general, the SMSF handle almost a third of the retirement group of $ 4 billion of Australia.

Cool data From Australia’s prudential regulation authority shows that total SMSF assets grew only 5.5% in the year until June 2025, which suggests that although the assignments of digital assets within these funds have emerged from a low base five years ago, the widest SMSF savings group is expanding at a much slower pace.

Earlier this month, an Australian fiscal office report He showed that self -managed funds had about $ 3 billion (US $ 1.9 billion) in medium -year cryptography, which is less than 0.3% of their assets and an even lower part of the pension system of $ 4.3 billion of $ 4.3 billion.

The SMSF remained very weighted towards shares, effective and property, with stable cryptographic assignments after a brief peak in early 2024, according to the report.

At that time, the observers noticed that investors “lost the rally” when back after that peak, aligning with the way SMSF remains a cautious investment product, even when the cryptographic volumes of Asia-Pacific increased increased approximately 69% during the same period.

Even so, Cooper said OKX hopes to see “thousands of SMSF on board in the next 12 to 24 months”, with many of them changing other exchanges.