Weekly Review of New Assets on Huobi HTX (1.5—1.11): Binance Life and ZKP Lead, First-Mover Advantage Continues to Unfold

Entering 2026, the crypto market continues its oscillating pattern amid the interplay of macro environment and sentiment recovery. Against the backdrop of relatively mild overall market gains, several assets on Huobi HTX saw weekly increases in the past week (January 5 - January 11), with the BSC Chinese Meme project "Binance Life" and the privacy project ZKP standing out particularly. Huobi HTX, leveraging its keen market insights and the first-mover advantage of launching early with strong narratives, once again demonstrated strong explosive power during the asset launch "rush period."

DeFi and Privacy Lead the Charge: FXS Strongly Rebounds, ZKP Leads Narrative Upgrade

This week, the privacy sector and DeFi infrastructure performed the most prominently. The privacy projects ZKP and XMR both strengthened, with narratives continuing to ferment, becoming one of the few directions that achieved clear trend-based increases this week.

• FXS (Frax Finance): With a weekly increase of 110%, it topped the gainers' list. Frax Finance is a DeFi protocol that offers three stablecoins and staking derivatives (FRAX, FPI, frxETH) for earning yields, providing liquidity, and staking in DeFi.

• ZKP (zkPass): Weekly increase of 90%. As a leading project in the privacy computing sector, ZKP utilizes zero-knowledge proof technology to solve Web3 identity verification challenges. Huobi HTX's early layout and launch of ZKP allowed platform users to fully capture the turning point benefits of the privacy sector from stagnation to explosion.

• XMR (Monero): Weekly increase of 36%. As a well-established privacy asset, XMR's steady rise once again confirms the market's return to the eternal theme of "financial privacy." Funds are gradually shifting from "single-point speculation" to "sector resonance," and the phased value of privacy assets is being re-priced.

BSC Chinese Meme: Binance Life Takes the Lead, Early Layout Advantage Emerges

In the Meme sector, the focus this week is undoubtedly on Binance Life. With the resurgence of interest in the BSC ecosystem and the continuous fermentation of the Chinese Meme narrative, funds have begun to flow preferentially towards targets with early cognitive advantages and community foundations.

Notably, Binance Life, as an early launched and heavily supported BSC ecosystem project on Huobi HTX, was keenly identified by Huobi HTX for its traffic potential early in its development, providing liquidity support at the first opportunity. This strategy of launching ahead of the market's large-scale FOMO has not only built a good reputation for the platform but also allowed early investors to reap substantial rewards in this wave of the BSC Chinese narrative.

• Binance Life: Weekly increase of 63%. Unlike previous Memes that relied solely on animal imagery, Binance Life embodies a deep "Chinese community culture." This asset originated from the community's resonance with the lifestyle of the crypto industry, possessing a high degree of cohesion within the BSC ecosystem.

Following the explosive momentum of "Binance Life," Huobi HTX has launched popular BSC on-chain Chinese Meme projects "I'm Here", "Life K-Line", and "Old Man", and has simultaneously introduced I’m Here/USDT (10X) and Old Man/USDT (10X) isolated margin trading, fully supporting BSC ecosystem Chinese Memes.

A large-scale "Chinese Asset Series Event" has also been launched to give back to community users. From now until January 19, participants in the trading of the above Chinese assets or those who invite friends can share a generous welfare pool of up to $200,000, and new registrants can draw a lucky prize of up to 888 USDT.

Additionally, the BSC Meme project B (BUILDon) saw a weekly increase of 28%, further confirming the structural opportunities within the sector; the Solana ecosystem Meme remains active, with CHILLGUY (Just a chill guy) achieving a weekly increase of 33%. The steady performance of these assets provides Huobi HTX users with a diversified investment portfolio.

AI Sector: Narrative Continues, Funding Preferences Become More Rational

The AI sector remains the "main theme" for the entire year of 2026. AI-related assets continued their oscillating recovery trend this week. Overall, the speculative sentiment in the AI sector has noticeably cooled, with funds beginning to prefer projects with practical applications or clearly defined long-term positioning.

• ARC (AI Rig Complex): Weekly increase of 42%, a new species of "AI+MEME" in the Solana ecosystem, gaining some attention under the cross-narrative. ARC is a foundational AI infrastructure, written using RIG, which is an LLM framework for building AI agents based on the Rust language.

• AIC (AI Companions): Weekly increase of 53%. AI Companions is positioned as a leading platform integrating artificial intelligence, VR/AR, and blockchain technology, aiming to create personalized digital companions to provide users with virtual companionship experiences.

• RENDER (Render Token): Weekly increase of 23%. As a more mature AI infrastructure project, its performance is relatively stable. Render is a distributed GPU rendering network built on the Ethereum blockchain.

First-Mover Advantage Equals Profit Advantage: Early Launched Assets on Huobi HTX are Becoming "Certainty" in a Volatile Market

Overall, the market did not experience a comprehensive upward trend in the second week of January, but structural opportunities remain clear. Whether it is ZKP's early positioning before its rise in the privacy sector or the decisive launch of Binance Life at the initial outbreak of the BSC Chinese community, Huobi HTX has transformed its platform advantages into profit space for users through the "first-mover" narrative. In the crypto market, narratives can be imitated, but the time cost advantages brought by first launches/early listings are irreplaceable.

Huobi HTX will continue to rely on its forward-looking judgment of multi-sector trends to explore and support new assets with long-term potential, providing users with richer and more growth-oriented trading options. As structural markets gradually evolve, the value of early positioning is being repeatedly validated by the market.

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