From Trading to Empowerment: Huobi HTX's Mid-Year Achievements and Strategic New Chapter in 2025

In 2025, the cryptocurrency industry is moving forward amidst the intertwining of macroeconomic conditions and regulatory variables. Huobi HTX continues to consolidate its industry-leading position with outstanding performance and forward-looking strategic layout.

On July 22, during the live discussion of Huobi HTX's semi-annual report and development strategy for the second half of the year, HTX DAO core builder Liu Ye reviewed the achievements of Huobi HTX and HTX DAO in the first half of 2025 in the form of a "work report" and looked ahead to the strategic direction for the second half of the year. From user growth to new asset layout, from DAO governance upgrades to compliance globalization, Huobi HTX and HTX DAO have demonstrated their unique advantages in promoting industry ecosystem construction and user empowerment.

A "Growth Model" Amidst Industry Headwinds in the First Half of the Year: Strategic Resilience Behind the Data

In the first half of 2025, amidst a backdrop where most platforms in the market faced stagnation or even decline, Huobi HTX delivered a counter-trend performance:

• Total users exceeded 50 million, with a half-year growth of 14%;
• Trading volume rose against the trend, with a year-on-year increase of 17%, and trading users grew by 11%;
• Under the pressure of an overall market downturn in the first quarter, Huobi HTX became the only platform among the global Top 10 exchanges to achieve positive growth in trading volume.

Third-party data further validates Huobi HTX's outstanding performance. By the end of May, during a phase where global capital flows became more cautious, Huobi HTX's 24H/7D/30D net capital inflows showed a significant lead, proving that it is becoming a "safe haven" during the industry's confidence rebuilding phase.

Behind this report card is Huobi HTX's continuous deepening of asset quality, emerging sectors, and user experience. In the first half of 2025, Huobi HTX positioned itself early in hot sectors such as Meme coins, AI, and stablecoins, successfully launching multiple star projects.

It is reported that Huobi HTX is one of the earliest platforms in the industry to focus on and promote the construction of a stablecoin ecosystem. As early as the beginning of this year, it keenly observed the growing attention of global governments and institutions towards stablecoins, viewing them as a key bridge connecting the traditional financial world and the crypto world, and as an important strategic layout to promote mainstream recognition and achieve large-scale applications in the crypto industry. Based on this understanding, Huobi HTX decisively abandoned short-term profit considerations and concentrated on launching six stablecoins, including USD1, in May this year to accelerate ecological layout.

At the same time, HTX DAO continues to invest in "beyond coin price," building foundational infrastructure such as the $HTX deflationary mechanism and community governance mechanism. Notably, the $HTX Q2 burn amount increased by 15% compared to the previous quarter, with a total cumulative burn value of $136 million, accounting for nearly 10% of the circulating market value, reflecting its execution power in the deflationary model and value anchoring.

*Complete report card of Huobi HTX for the first half of 2025: ++https://square.htx.com.de/zh/htx-shangbannian-chengjidan-toubu-jiaoyisuo/++

Core Keywords for the Second Half of the Year: Empowerment ------ Making Users True Partners of the Platform

If the first half of the year was the foundational building period for Huobi HTX and HTX DAO, the next half will enter the "empowerment cycle," aiming to build a more transparent and decentralized "people's exchange."

● Moving Towards Compliance Heights: Writing "Value Distribution" On-Chain

According to Liu Ye during the live broadcast, HTX DAO is currently actively cooperating with compliant exchanges in the United States. Although the high standards of the U.S. market have made the cooperation process more complex than expected, their determination remains unwavering.

In addition, HTX DAO has updated its white paper and entered the legal review stage, with one important content being the mechanism of using 50% of quarterly revenue for $HTX burns directly written into the white paper.

Liu Ye explained that this means HTX DAO is firmly moving towards a higher level of compliance and demonstrates its determination to build a "decentralized people's exchange"—by enhancing community trust in the platform through transparent revenue distribution and burn mechanisms, and creating long-term value for $HTX holders.

● Token Empowerment: Gradually Transferring Governance and Revenue Rights to the Community

In the second half of this year, HTX DAO will focus on advancing the token empowerment plan. In addition to the existing "voting for coin recommendations" mechanism, more diverse empowerment models will be introduced:

1. Establishing a treasury system: A portion of transaction fees will be allocated to the treasury to support the long-term development of the HTX DAO ecosystem and various innovative projects, ensuring the reasonable and effective use of community funds.

2. Launching an on-chain points reward system: Whether it is posting, content dissemination, or recommending projects, any behavior that contributes to community building will be recorded in the on-chain points system and incentivized through subsequent token airdrops, achieving "behavior equals revenue."

Liu Ye stated that behind this series of mechanisms is a historic transformation where the platform transfers governance and revenue rights, redefining the relationship between platforms and users in the Web3 era. However, this is just the beginning of the token empowerment plan, and in the future, more models for token holders to benefit will be explored to encourage broader community participation.

● Beyond Trading, Above Experience: Comprehensive Evolution of Product Functions

Liu Ye also mentioned that in this era emphasizing long-termism and user connection, Huobi HTX is continuously evolving its product capabilities to create a more robust and user-friendly digital asset trading platform for global users.

It is reported that in the first half of this year, Huobi HTX launched the first high-quality C2C trading area in the industry, "Huobi Selection Station." This platform eliminates non-real-name payments and abnormal freezing risks through in-depth searches and risk control factor identification, combined with 24-hour manual inspections, ensuring zero freezing and zero non-real-name payments for selected withdrawals.

Entering Q3, Huobi HTX will undergo a system-level renewal from the inside out, centering on users to comprehensively enhance trading experience, visual perception, and operational efficiency. Among them, there will be no less than 20 functional optimizations across business lines such as spot, leverage, and contracts, enhancing order product capabilities for smoother trading.

Listing with Principles: Huobi HTX Builds an Open and Transparent Quality Asset Entrance

During the live broadcast, Liu Ye elaborated on the standards for voting and recommending coins, which are of general concern to the community.

It is introduced that there are three core standards for listing on the Huobi HTX platform: high popularity and user demand, teams with successful cases and clear token economic models, and long-term community engagement and value verification (such as $CFX).

Liu Ye emphasized: "With the strong liquidity and active user base of the Huobi HTX platform, along with the global influence of Huobi HTX global advisor Sun Yuchen, Huobi HTX often helps quality new coins generate trading heat immediately upon listing, even becoming industry benchmarks."

To ensure the fairness of the "voting for coin recommendations" mechanism, specific project quality thresholds are set to eliminate low-quality vote manipulation. Most importantly, Sun Yuchen holds the final decision-making power to prevent manipulation and bribery.

Liu Ye concluded that Huobi HTX is adopting a "bold yet meticulous" gradual decentralization path. Before the DAO governance capability matures, it maintains necessary prudent centralization to ensure operational stability and security. However, Huobi HTX's long-term goal is firm: to build a truly user-owned and governed "people's exchange," ultimately achieving broad delegation of governance power and comprehensive on-chain supervision.