Advertising and independence disclosure

Last updated 4 Sep 2026

The short version: the English pages carry an OKX invite code, OK0088, and one promotion link that carries it. The link sits in the body of our OKX invite code article. If you register through it, OKX pays us a referral fee; you normally pay no more for having used it. The longer version is below.

The code, the one link, and what we get

The code appears as plain text in a few places, including the header of the English home page, so you can copy it and type it in yourself on OKX's own form. That is the version we would rather you used. Separately, exactly one link on the English side — in the article body, not in a header, menu, footer or list page — opens OKX's sign-up page with the code already attached. It is marked rel="sponsored nofollow noopener noreferrer", opens in a new tab, and the sentence next to it says what it is.

What we receive is a share of the trading fees OKX collects from accounts opened with the code. What you receive is a discount on your own fee tier, the size of which is set by OKX's current promotion and can be revised at any time — the figure in your account's fee schedule is the one that applies to you, not any figure quoted here. We are not aware of any way in which using the code makes you pay more than signing up with no code at all, but we can only describe our side of the arrangement; the terms are OKX's and they can change them.

Two things this money does not buy. It does not soften how the risks are written: the same article says an exchange account is the wrong answer for most freelancers, and that the cash-out step is where money actually gets lost. And it does not extend anywhere else — nothing else on the English side is a paid placement, and no service we name has paid for its coverage.

One caveat about jurisdiction, since these pages are in English. In the UK, promoting a cryptoasset is a financial promotion: under section 21 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, an invitation or inducement to engage in cryptoasset investment activity may only be communicated to UK consumers by an FCA-authorised firm, or approved by one, with a prescribed risk warning and a cooling-off period for first-time investors. We are not FCA-authorised and have no approver, so nothing here is offered to UK consumers as an approved financial promotion. Our Chinese edition carries the same code and its own single link, described in full in the Chinese disclosure.

The rules we hold ourselves to

  • No hidden commercial links. The one link that earns us anything is labelled in the sentence next to it, not disclosed only in a footer. If we ever add another, it gets the same treatment.
  • Honest about the tools we name. We list the real disadvantages of every service we cover — PayPal, Wise, Payoneer and the rest — and none of them pays us for the coverage.
  • No pay-to-rank. Nobody can buy a higher position in a comparison or a softer write-up. Our ordering reflects what we think is true.
  • Availability and local rules first. We describe a financial service as something for you to verify. You still need to confirm availability, official terms and local legality yourself, and the risks sit in the same block as the description rather than buried further down.
  • No investment advice. Nothing on Lithos is a recommendation to invest, trade or buy any asset. We cover moving money you've already earned.

Where OKX comes into it

OKX, a crypto exchange, is named in our guides in one narrow situation: a client has already paid you in stablecoin and you need to turn that into local currency. That is a description of a route, not a recommendation to take it, and it is also the route our invite code and referral link belong to — which is exactly why we state the arrangement rather than leaving you to guess at it.

  • We are not OKX. We have no affiliation, agency or official relationship with the company, we do not speak for it, and we never hold or handle your money — it moves between you and the platform, never through us.
  • Their official terms are whatever OKX publishes, not whatever we summarise here. Check availability for your own country before you rely on any of it.
  • Using any exchange involves KYC, fees, and the risk that crypto's value can move. P2P trading carries its own scams and frozen-account risk. We cover these honestly in our guides, and for most freelancers a bank, Wise or Payoneer route is the better answer anyway.

For transparency and for clean web practices:

  • One outbound link on the English side is commercial: the OKX sign-up link in the invite code article, marked rel="sponsored nofollow noopener noreferrer" and opening in a new tab. Every other outbound link is an ordinary reference link with rel="noopener noreferrer" and nothing appended.
  • Links are hand-placed static HTML pointing at the official domain. Nothing is injected by a script, swapped at runtime, or rewritten depending on who is looking — the crawler and the reader see the same URL. There is no interstitial, no redirect script and no meta refresh in between.
  • Apart from that one link, no tracking parameter, referral ID or invite code is appended to anything we point at.

Not financial advice

Everything on Lithos is general information to help you get paid, not personalised financial, tax or legal advice. Your circumstances are specific to you. For decisions with real consequences (large sums, tax treatment, business structure), talk to a qualified professional in your country.

Questions about any of this? Email gzs28@lithoscash.com.