In the first quarter of 2025, global assets experienced severe shocks, and the crypto market was also impacted, with increased trading frequency. Huobi HTX seized the trend and delivered a brilliant quarterly report card in terms of trading volume, user growth, new coin launches, brand exposure, product features, etc., steadily advancing its stable operation and rapid response capabilities, providing users with a safe and reliable trading environment, continuously creating a real wealth effect, and fulfilling the responsibilities and obligations of a peoples exchange.
Both users and funds grew, and online and offline traffic soared: Search and external link growth hit a record high in March, and Justin Sun was on the cover of Forbes Global
In the first quarter of 2025, the number of newly registered users on the Huobi HTX platform increased by 116% month-on-month, and the net deposit amount soared by 210% month-on-month, and the platforms attractiveness gradually increased. At the same time, the overall trading activity of the platform also increased simultaneously. In March, when the growth momentum was the strongest, the natural traffic of the Huobi HTX platform increased by 127% compared with the previous month, and the platforms search clicks and external link growth reached a record high, becoming a traffic dark horse in the stage of soaring popularity in the crypto market.
As an important part of platform governance, HTX DAO has been holding activities to promote the user co-governance ecosystem. On April 8, the TRON x HTX DAO 2025 Hong Kong Night event co-organized by HTX DAO was held in Hong Kong. Many important guests attended, attracting many community users to participate, and at the same time demonstrated its long-term commitment to the future of Web3 to the outside world.
In March, Justin Sun, founder of TRON and global advisor of Huobi HTX, was featured on the cover of Forbes Global Edition, becoming another Chinese entrepreneur to appear on the cover of Forbes Global Edition after Jack Ma, and the fourth person in the field of crypto exchanges after CZ, SBF, and Brian Armstrong. This is not only a recognition of Huobi HTXs brand reshaping and globalization strategy over the past two years, but also means that it has gained more mainstream attention in its dual development path of industry compliance and innovation.
The wealth effect of new assets is strongly released: hot assets have increased significantly, and platform activities are constantly hot.
In terms of new asset launches, relying on its accurate grasp of the market rhythm, Huobi HTX launched the celebrity coin TRUMP for the first time. After its launch, the highest increase reached 9 times, becoming the quarterly star project. At the same time, Huobi HTX closely followed the market hotspots and took the lead in launching multiple AI concept coins, such as VIRTUAL on the BASE chain, which rose by 104%, AVAAI on the SOLANA chain, which rose by 256%, and LUNA, which rose by 312%. In the DeFAI track, GRIFFAIN and GRIFT also achieved nearly doubled increases.
In addition, during the market correction period, Huobi HTX still steadily launched a number of high-quality track leading projects, such as LAYER with a maximum increase of 153%, XION with a maximum increase of 116%, and KAITO with a maximum increase of 99%. The layout of the BSC chain was also rapid, with assets such as TST and MUBARAK launched in a timely manner, among which MUBARAK rose by 66% after its launch. The wealth effect of this series of assets once again highlights the platforms fast, accurate, and stable asset screening capabilities and online efficiency, and enhances users investment confidence in speculating on new coins, using Huobi.
In terms of platform activities, Huobi HTX held 2 Launchpool activities in the first quarter. As a trump card activity, one-click subscription of $HTX can obtain the dual benefits of earning coins + airdrops, and share multiple prize pools. The peak number of participants in Launchpool 3 reached 178,000. At the same time, in January, Huobi HTX spot linkage contract launched the TRUMP Trading Carnival Activity at the same time. The number of participants in the spot trading competition was nearly 40,000, and the transaction volume was 799 million U, reaching the peak of historical activities in Q1. In March, the SunPump MEME wave, the trading sentiment of community users was high, and Huobi HTX launched the SunPump MEME Carnival, giving users zero handling fee discount + trading competition rewards dual incentives, nearly 10,000 users participated in the activity, and the overall transaction volume during the activity period reached 14 million+. Huobi HTX continues to release traffic dividends with rich and diverse platform activities, creating more diverse wealth growth paths and tangible participation returns for users.
Continuous output of investment research content, optimization and upgrade of product functions: Deeply empower users with opinions and maximize user experience
During Q1, HTX Ventures released two in-depth industry research reports and one trend observation article. The research report covers the development of the AI track DeepSeek ignites the iPhone moment of the AI track, and Agents tokens accelerate integration into real crypto business , and the DeFi compliance trend Crypto compliance opens the new DeFi era, RWAFi and stablecoin payments become new opportunities . At the same time, an English opinion article entitled Striking a Balance between Compliance and Innovation in a Shifting Regulatory Landscape was also released, exploring the balance between innovation and regulation, providing strong insight support for industry participants.
In terms of products, Huobi HTX continues to upgrade a number of products to comprehensively improve the transaction convenience and capital efficiency of users. The most important of these is the upgrade of the C2C trading model - the launch of the High-quality C2C Trading Zone Huobi Selection Station , which strictly selects 0 frozen merchants, buys U at the cheapest, sells U at the safest, and creates the most user-friendly C2C platform.
At the same time, the experience of the coin-earning subscription page has been upgraded. The coin-earning account now supports automatic subscription and redemption, and the function of subscribing USDT 1: 1 to USDD current coin-earning has been launched to help users flexibly manage assets and improve revenue efficiency. The experience of issuing 0 yuan purchase for contract positions has been optimized; the asset page has added deposit and withdrawal order information to make the flow of user funds clear at a glance. In addition, during the Spring Festival, the platform launched the Community Red Packet activity to stimulate community interaction enthusiasm. In terms of account security, Huobi HTX has completed the optimization and upgrade of reset security, effectively reducing the cost of user account recovery.
Risk prevention and control are given equal importance to service to ensure user transaction security
In terms of security, Huobi HTX continued to strengthen the construction of its risk control system in the first quarter of 2025, issuing more than 1.28 million security reminders to users, removing 17 phishing websites and fake APP download websites; successfully intercepting 5 fraudulent withdrawals, recovering approximately US$75,000 in losses for users; assisted external parties in freezing more than US$560,000 in stolen funds; added 13,832 blacklist addresses, and intercepted 8 black address recharges, involving more than US$810,000 in funds.
At the same time, the platforms asset reserve ratio remained above 100% in the first quarter, and reserve proof reports were regularly released to bring higher transparency to the platforms assets. At the same time, the Merkle tree proof mechanism was upgraded this quarter, and the PoR data memory storage was upgraded to TiDB storage. The overall asset deposit volume of Huobi HTX has increased significantly, showing a strong trend of net inflow of user assets. Users can visit the Asset-Reserve Proof Report page on the Huobi HTX official website at any time to view the monthly updated reserve proof report.
In terms of customer service, Huobi HTX customer service team has served more than 100,000 users, efficiently handled more than 200,000 questions, and achieved a satisfaction rate of 81%. It helps users quickly solve practical problems in P2P transactions, on-chain deposits and withdrawals, asset management, KYC audits, etc., and ensures smooth user transactions. With professional and meticulous services, the customer service team continues to improve user experience and further enhance platform stickiness.
In the first quarter of 2025, Huobi HTX achieved gratifying results in user growth, new asset performance, security, product optimization and brand building, laying a solid foundation for the annual goals. Looking to the future, Huobi HTX will continue to uphold the concept of user first, relying on the HTX DAO governance system to promote product and ecological construction, and continuously strengthen asset screening and product innovation, helping more users to share the wealth dividends of the crypto era.
About Huobi HTX
Huobi HTX was founded in 2013. After 11 years of development, it has grown from a cryptocurrency exchange to a comprehensive blockchain business ecosystem covering digital asset trading, financial derivatives, research, investment, incubation and other businesses.
As the worlds leading Web3 portal, Huobi HTX adheres to the development strategy of global expansion, ecological prosperity, wealth effect, and security and compliance, providing comprehensive, safe and reliable value and services to virtual currency enthusiasts around the world.
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