ICE Brent, WTI benchmarks are live
We're now the first global crypto exchange to offer perpetual futures priced against licensed Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) Brent Crude and WTI benchmarks. The contracts are live today and available on X-Perps in the EEA, and on perpetual futures in the UAE, Asia, Latin America, the CIS region and Türkiye.
ICE Brent and WTI are among the world’s most important financial benchmarks because they underpin price discovery across global energy markets. Every day, energy producers, commodity traders and financial institutions rely on their accuracy, transparency and integrity to value risk, execute trades and manage exposure.
Today, millions of OKX customers can trade perpetual futures referenced to those same licensed benchmark prices.
This is the first product from our partnership with ICE, established in March 2026. We built the partnership first, followed by the licensing framework and the market data infrastructure needed to bring ICE’s benchmark prices onto OKX.
The result is a different pricing foundation. Rather than relying solely on prices derived from crypto venues, our oil perpetual futures now reference licensed ICE benchmark data that underpins price discovery across global energy markets. That gives traders greater confidence that they’re trading against the same trusted reference prices used throughout the broader energy industry.
Until now, access has been the barrier for most traders. Gaining exposure to the world’s leading oil benchmarks typically meant trading traditional futures, managing contract expiries, rolling positions and navigating the mechanics of physical delivery. Our perpetual futures remove that complexity. Traders can access ICE Brent and WTI benchmarks on OKX around the clock, hold positions continuously and respond to market events as they happen, whether that’s during the trading day or over the weekend when oil reacts to breaking news.
For market makers and advanced traders, the biggest improvement is the quality of the underlying reference price. ICE Brent and WTI benchmarks sit at the centre of price discovery across global oil markets, providing an accurate and transparent basis for pricing, hedging and risk management. Bringing those benchmark prices into perpetual futures creates a stronger foundation for managing basis risk while delivering the flexibility of always-on digital markets.
This is another step towards a future where traditional financial infrastructure and digital asset platforms operate in increasingly connected, 24/7 global markets. By making ICE’s benchmark data available through OKX, we are expanding access to some of the world’s most important market infrastructure for our customers. This is the start, and we have more in the pipeline.
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With the integration of ICE benchmark data, the index design for CLUSDT and BZUSDT — including component weights and rollover timing — have been updated. For full details, see our Commodity Perpetuals documentation.
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