ApeX exchange profile

ApeX’s current trading platform is Omni, built using zkLink X rollup infrastructure. It offers crypto perpetuals and additional account-based products. A wallet connection, an email wallet and a funded trading account are separate stages: control of a wallet key does not mean every committed asset is immediately available on its original chain.[1]

Omni Spot closed on 5 August 2026 at 10:00 UTC, while perpetuals and vaults continued. Old token-Spot guides are therefore legacy material. The separately documented Prediction Market is an event-outcome service.[34]

DefiLlama’s combined ApeX Protocol page, inspected on 20 October 2026, showed approximately US$11.78 billion of perpetual notional over the preceding 30 days. Its definition includes leverage. The measure is neither customer deposits nor spot turnover; a verified comparable count of active individual traders was not established.[35]

Illustration: a 10,000 USDT position opened and closed at unchanged notional costs 10 USDT at the base taker rate, or 4 USDT if both fills qualify as makers. This excludes spread, funding, collateral conversion and withdrawal costs.[11]

For Prediction Market transfers, the current guide uses Arbitrum and a minimum of 3 USDT. Moving from Funding to Prediction uses the fast-withdrawal route and its fee; returning funds has no additional transfer fee. PUSD and USDT are different accounting assets, so their conversion rate can change reported total equity.[18]

A displayed trading bonus is not withdrawable capital. Bonus credit covers qualifying fees or losses under its campaign rules; realised profits can be withdrawable. Moving funds out reclaims remaining bonus, and Perp and TradFi bonuses stay within their assigned accounts. Perp bonus credit cannot fund a grid strategy.[10]

Legacy Spot asset recovery has separate procedures. The closure notice moved USDT to Funding and arranged supported EVM-token returns to the corresponding wallet; Solana tokens require an official ticket and address verification. Single-asset balances below 3 USDT were excluded from airdrops. Former Spot commission history was hidden, making retained personal records especially useful.[34]

Email registration creates a Privy wallet using an email verification code. The same login style is documented on web and app. Account recovery still depends on access to the registered identity and wallet controls; it should not be confused with a conventional exchange password reset over a centrally held balance.[4]

For an email-created wallet, private-key export is documented on the website only. Export allows the same wallet to be imported elsewhere and can help recover assets sent to that wallet. It does not itself release contract-held margin, close orders or complete a rollup withdrawal. The exported key conveys control of the wallet.[5]

ApeX’s software terms restrict US users and sanctioned territories and prohibit bypassing restrictions through location-masking tools. Being able to connect a wallet is not sufficient evidence of eligibility. Fiat-provider approval is an additional product-specific requirement.[33][2]

Support requests should include the wallet address, chain, transaction hash, time, device and relevant screenshots. New Discord members may face a ten-minute ticket cooldown. Staff do not initiate direct messages, and closed tickets are deleted, so retain the conversation before closure. A ticket is an investigation route; alternative human dealing authority was not established.[8]

The terms allow arbitration if unresolved 30 days after written notice is received. CeCAP proceedings use one arbitrator in Panama City, in English or Spanish as agreed. Claims must be filed within one year of arising; liability is capped at fees in the month before the triggering event, subject to applicable law.[33]

For a perpetual delisting, the documented sequence is reduce-only, trading suspension and automatic settlement using a 30-minute average mark price. The settlement fee averages maker and taker rates. Trading history remains available, while a dismissed delisting alert uses browser storage and can reappear after cache clearing. Withdrawal logs and exported local records should be preserved separately.[13]

Terms dated 27 July 2026 name APEX DAO Inc. as software counterparty and disclaim operation of public deployments. No firm-specific financial permission or investor-compensation entitlement was established from the inspected material.[33]

ApeX describes its organisation as DAO-owned and governed. That description does not identify every operational service provider or establish which entity would be responsible for a particular frontend, vault strategy or third-party payment transaction.[30]

Operator

ApeX Protocol; APEX DAO Inc. is the software-terms counterparty

Exchange model

Decentralised

Service scope

Omni perpetuals, separate outcome products, vaults and APEX staking; token Spot closed.

Client types

Not established

Pricing publication

Public pricing

Pricing scope

Maker/taker execution fees, hourly funding and product-specific transfer or strategy charges.

Funding scope

Crypto Funding Account and provider fiat purchases; normal and liquidity-provider withdrawals.

Custody and asset handling

Wallet keys and rollup-held margin have distinct controls; forced exit requires chain transactions.

Client eligibility

Wallet or email access; geographic and payment-provider restrictions apply.

Support

Official Discord tickets and contractual dispute procedures; no alternative dealing service established.

Authorisation and registration scope

No entity-specific financial permission established from the inspected evidence.

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TradFi API trading requires its own account context and API/ZK signing material. The documented surface includes signed order, transfer and withdrawal operations; a developer key should not be described generically as read-only. The scope of any automation follows the actual credentials and account it controls.[17]

ApeX lists AI-assisted trading as an upcoming feature in its overview. That announcement is not evidence that a live AI adviser currently has authority to trade or withdraw assets. Existing grid and vault controls have the concrete execution roles described above.[1]