Crypto Titans Clash: Star Xu Demands OKX Freeze as Justin Sun Feud Escalates

Crypto’s latest power struggle turns icy—OKX founder Star Xu pushes for an asset freeze targeting Tron’s Justin Sun, escalating their long-simmering rivalry.

Behind the scenes: Xu’s request hints at deeper tensions in Asia’s crypto oligarchy, where billionaires settle scores with cold wallets instead of lawyers. Classic decentralization, right?

The kicker? Both moguls keep straight faces while preaching ’community values’—between private jets and liquidity wars. Never change, crypto.

OKX CEO claps back at Justin Sun

According to Star, the exchange’s LE cooperation team checked the email, including the spam box, and mentioned that they hadn’t received any requests related to this case. He explained via X:

“Dear Mr H.E. Justin Sun, our LE cooperation team just checked the email including spam box, we haven’t received any request related with this case. Can you give us the screenshot to show when the enforcement agency send the request to us?”

Dear Mr H.E. Justin Sun, our LE cooperation team just checked the email including spam box, we haven’t received any request related with this case. Can you give us the screenshot to show when the enforcement agency send the request to us? @justinsuntron https://t.co/QIPFUbOqbi pic.twitter.com/lkHZWvk6fm

Star further clarified OKX’s procedures for law enforcement cooperation and directed Sun to the exchange’s public policy.

“OKX has public LE cooperation policy. You can offer some preliminary evidence of the incident through the public reporting channels…we will do a temporary urgent freeze according to the evidence. Then you should work with LE agents to offer us legal documents to continue the freeze,” he added.

The OKX CEO also resisted Sun’s public demands. He mentioned that OKX has a consumer protection policy according to law. He insists that they can’t freeze a customer’s funds according to Sun’s personal X post or oral communication.

Sun deleted his original tweet, though other users had captured it in screenshots. The deleted post claimed that OKX was not responding to official freeze notices from law enforcement regarding stolen funds.