OKX Boost Q1 Data report: 23 projects with more than $11 million in incentives and more than 70 per cent on average
OKX Boost has been a bridge between the chain of innovative projects and real users since September 2025. For ordinary users, it provides a low-threshold, high-transparent access route to participation; for project parties, Boost is the initial site for observation of user interests and market responses, as well as an outpost for access to the OKX main station mobile market to inform follow-up spot or contract entry。
What is the level of active user participation for OKX Boost? How is the overall information transparency of the project? And how many successful projects did they graduate into the OKX main station
Recently, RootData is online. OKX BoostProject seriesA SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF THE 2026 Q1 ONLINE PROJECT WAS CONDUCTED TO PROVIDE A MORE COMPLETE DATA PERSPECTIVE FOR THE INDUSTRY. THE FOLLOWING ARE CORE DATA AND KEY OBSERVATIONS:
I. OKX Boost Q1 Participation: an average of over 20,000 addresses and over $11 million in total award pools
According to the OKX Boost project collage of RootData, OKX Boost has been online for 62 projects, of which Q1 was online in 2026 for 23 project activities (some of which were divided into two phases), representing almost 37 per cent。
These activities cumulatively provided a pool of awards of over $11 million (currency prices based on user-winning tokens) and attracted 461,048 participants, with an average of about 20,000 participants per session and an average value of approximately $0.5 million per project。
It is worth mentioning that, during the event, the project was partially rewarded with project tokens whose prices rose significantly before the start of the activity, resulting in a significantly higher market value for users than the initial award poolI don't know。For example, based on the collection price of the user's token, the Spacecoin single-stage award pool eventually amounted to $2.31 million。
In addition, projects such as XDC Network ($0.6 million), Unitas Labs ($5.5 million), River ($5.4 million), EPHYRA ($0.5 million) and Fandom Creator ($0.5 million) also provide a valuable award pool, which is equally bright。
RootData has an average transparency of over 70 per cent and a high level of overall disclosure
The RootData Transparency Rating (100% full) measures the visibility of the project in terms of dimensions such as team, financing, chain data, etc. The greater transparency the project usually means that it is more reliable and more open to market supervision。
The average transparency rating for the Q1 Boost project was 71.8 per cent, which is above average. This suggests that the overall disclosure of the project on line is adequate and that the Platform has certain threshold requirements for project quality. Of these, the top 10 items for transparency are as follows:
AS CAN BE SEEN, MOST OF THESE ARE INFRASTRUCTURE, ZK PRIVACY OR AI-TYPE PROJECTS, WHICH, BECAUSE OF THEIR LONGER CERTIFICATION CYCLES, MAY THEMSELVES REQUIRE MORE INFORMATION DISCLOSURE BY COMMUNITIES。
In the near future, OKX Boost and RootData have announced data collaboration around project transparency, and future project Boost information disclosure will be more standardized and verifiable. This cooperation will further push project parties towards greater transparency and, for ordinary users, participation in Boost ' s decision-making base will be clearer and more reliable。
III. Graduation rate 45%: transparency has become a key filter indicator
Before entering the analysis, the definition of “graduation” is made clear: the success of the project on-line OKX spot or renewal contracts means moving from Boost to a larger liquidity market. As at 23 April, the total number of Q1 activities stood at 23, out of 22 projects, of which 10 were “graduated”, with a graduation rate of 45 per cent。
This means that close to half of the projects will be able to complete the path migration from activity incentives to spot or contractual uplink, and that OKX Boost is being strengthened as an "outpost" attribute of the main OKX station, which is providing potential project sources and data references for subsequent home station transactions as an early participation and screening mechanism for chain-oriented innovation projects interacting with users。
In terms of the type of graduation, the terminus has become the mainstream route to the main station for the Boost project. Of the 10 graduation projects, all have successfully entered into permanent contracts, and half of the projects have further acquired spot-trading on this basis. It is worth noting that the number of projects moving directly from Boost to sustainable contracts during Q1 shows a clear upward trend and that the graduation cycle for some projects has been reduced to about a week, indicating that OKX is accelerating contractual liquidity support for quality early projects。
The distribution of tracks for graduation projects covers three main areas: infrastructure, DeFi and AI. The infrastructure category (Espresso, Brevis, Spacecoin) focuses on ZK privacy and Layer2 expansion, the DeFi category (Unitas Labs, River) focuses on stabilization currency and lending agreements, and the AI category (Fabric, Based) favours AI agents and robots。
In addition, if from the perspective of transparency, transparency is highly relevant to the quality of graduation, 7 out of 10 graduation projects are more than 70 per cent transparent, reaching an average of 74.5 per cent. The most transparent, Espresso (92 per cent) and Zama (88 per cent), not only graduated successfully, but both entered into contracts and cash。
Overall, transparency has become an important accelerator for the project from Boost to the main station. As the collaboration between OKX Boost and RootData deepens, the level of standardization of information disclosure will further increase, and the weight of transparency in graduation decisions is expected to continue to rise in the future, or will become the core competitiveness of project participants for user trust and Platform resources。
IV. PLACE FLOOD: INFRASTRUCTURE AND DEFI EMPLOYMENT > 70 %, AI and Social Warming
In terms of the distribution of tracks, the Q1 Boost project covers various areas such as infrastructure, DeFi, AI and social entertainment. Of these, infrastructure projects ranked first in nine (41 per cent), covering a breakdown of Layer1/L2, Trans-chain, DePIN, Wallet, ZK identity, etc., reflecting the importance attached by OKX Boost to bottom-up technological innovation。
A total of seven (32 per cent) DeFi projects are based on stable currency, borrowing and derivatives. It is worth mentioning that the inclusion of 2 RWA projects, PerpStock (stock RWA market) and Block Street (currencyization stock DeFi agreement) suggests that OKX may in the near future attach great importance to the RWA track. As one of the most mature tracks on Web3, DeFi remains a highly engaged and mobile user class。
AI/AI agents (3, 14 per cent) and social entertainment (3, 14 per cent) are third. In the AI track, Fabric is involved in high-heat, on-line spot and on contracts; while EPHYRA is active only on-line Boost, the number of participants is equally high, suggesting that the AI narrative is naturally attractive to users. Social entertainment projectsSportFor delegates, up to 25,000 participants were one of the most popular projects in Q1, and Fandom Creator provided a $500,000 award pool, demonstrating the important role of IP and user skills in the entertainment track。
Overall, the Boost-line project does not chase Meme coins for short-term hotspots, but is a “useful” practical project that is highly compatible with the relatively rational user image of the OkX platform。
Summary
In the first quarter of 2026, OKX Boost achieved a breakthrough in the scale of participation, the quality of the project and the rate of currency conversion. Behind the more than 460,000 addresses and the $11 million award pool is the strong demand of users for early quality projects, while the high graduation rate of 45 per cent validates the effectiveness of Boost as an incubator for the project。
Of even greater concern is the fact that transparency is becoming the core ruler for distinguishing between project quality — high-sub-items are significantly superior to graduation. As the collaboration between OKX Boost and RootData deepens, the disclosure of information will move from “plus sub-items” to “necessary options” to further push the Platform's project entry threshold。
It is foreseen that Boost will not only be a gateway for users to capture early value, but will also be a standardized data window to observe the direction of market winds at Web3。
