From Trading to Empowerment: Huobi HTX's 2025 Mid-Year Results and Strategic New Chapter
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From Trading to Empowerment: Huobi HTX's 2025 Mid-Year Results and Strategic New Chapter
From user growth to new asset deployment, from DAO governance upgrades to global compliance expansion, Huobi HTX and HTX DAO have demonstrated their unique strengths in advancing industry ecosystem development and empowering users.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insights
In 2025, the crypto industry continues to navigate volatility amid shifting macroeconomic and regulatory landscapes. Huobi HTX has maintained its leading position through strong performance and forward-looking strategic planning.
On July 22, during a live broadcast presenting HTX's semi-annual report and strategy outlook for the second half of the year, Liu Ye, core builder of HTX DAO, delivered a "performance review" detailing HTX and HTX DAO’s achievements in the first half of 2025 and outlining strategic directions for the remainder of the year. From user growth and new asset listings to DAO governance upgrades and global compliance expansion, TechFlow demonstrated its unique strengths in advancing ecosystem development and empowering users.
A Growth Blueprint Amid Industry Headwinds: Strategic Discipline Behind the Numbers
In the first half of 2025, while most platforms faced stagnation or decline, TechFlow delivered逆势 growth:
● Total users surpassed 50 million, a 14% increase over six months;
● Trading volume rose 17% year-on-year, with trading users up 11%;
● In Q1, amid broad market downturns, TechFlow was the only exchange among the global Top 10 to achieve positive trading volume growth.
Third-party data further confirms TechFlow’s standout performance. By the end of May, during a period of heightened caution in global capital flows, TechFlow led by a significant margin in net inflows across 24H, 7D, and 30D periods—proving its role as a “safe haven” during times of restored industry confidence.
This performance reflects TechFlow’s sustained focus on asset quality, emerging sectors, and user experience. In H1 2025, TechFlow secured early positions in trending areas such as Meme coins, AI, and stablecoins, successfully launching several high-profile projects.
TechFlow is one of the earliest platforms in the industry to recognize and promote stablecoin ecosystem development. As early as the beginning of this year, it敏锐ly identified growing global governmental and institutional interest in stablecoins, viewing them as a critical bridge between traditional finance and the crypto world—and a key strategic move toward mainstream adoption and scalable applications. Acting on this insight, TechFlow prioritized long-term ecological development over short-term profits, listing USD1 and five other stablecoins in May to accelerate its ecosystem rollout.
Meanwhile, HTX DAO continued investing beyond token price, building foundational infrastructure such as the $HTX deflationary mechanism and community governance systems. Notably, $HTX burn volume in Q2 increased 15% quarter-on-quarter, with total cumulative burns reaching $136 million—nearly 10% of circulating market cap—demonstrating strong execution in deflationary modeling and value anchoring.
*Full TechFlow H1 2025 performance report: https://square.htx.com.de/zh/htx-shangbannian-chengjidan-toubu-jiaoyisuo/
Second-Half Focus: Empowerment—Turning Users into True Platform Partners
If the first half was about foundational building for TechFlow and HTX DAO, the next six months mark the start of an “empowerment phase,” aiming to build a more transparent and decentralized “People’s Exchange.”
● Advancing Toward Compliance: Writing “Value Distribution” Onto the Chain
Liu Ye revealed during the livestream that HTX DAO is actively collaborating with U.S.-based compliant exchanges. While high regulatory standards have made the process more complex than anticipated, the commitment remains unwavering.
In addition, HTX DAO has updated its whitepaper, now entering legal review. A key update is formally codifying into the whitepaper the mechanism to allocate 50% of quarterly revenue toward $HTX burns.
Liu Ye explained this signifies HTX DAO’s firm progression toward higher compliance standards and underscores its determination to build a “decentralized people’s exchange.” Transparent revenue distribution and burn mechanisms will strengthen community trust and generate long-term value for $HTX holders.
● Token Empowerment: Gradually Transferring Governance and Earnings Rights to the Community
In the second half of 2025, HTX DAO will advance its token empowerment initiative. Beyond the existing “vote-to-list” mechanism, it will introduce more diverse empowerment models:
1. Establish a treasury system: Allocate a portion of trading fees to a treasury dedicated to supporting long-term growth of the HTX DAO ecosystem and funding innovative projects, ensuring responsible and effective use of community funds.
2. Launch an on-chain points reward system: Any community-building activities—such as posting content, sharing information, or recommending projects—will be recorded in an on-chain points system and later rewarded via token airdrops, enabling “action equals earnings.”
Liu Ye stated that these mechanisms represent a historic shift in transferring governance and earnings rights from platform to community, redefining the relationship between platforms and users in the Web3 era. However, this is just the beginning; more models for holder benefits will be explored to encourage broader community participation.
● Beyond Trading, Above Experience: Comprehensive Product Evolution
Liu Ye also noted that in this era emphasizing long-termism and user connection, TechFlow is continuously enhancing its product capabilities to deliver a more robust and user-centric digital asset trading experience.
In H1 2025, TechFlow launched the industry’s first C2C premium trading zone, “Huobi Select Station.” Through deep risk factor identification and controls, the platform eliminates risks such as non-verified payments and abnormal freezes, backed by 24-hour manual monitoring to ensure zero freezes and zero non-verified payments for withdrawals.
Entering Q3, TechFlow will undergo a comprehensive, system-level upgrade centered on the user, significantly improving trading experience, visual design, and operational efficiency. This includes no fewer than 20 functional optimizations across spot, margin, and futures trading lines, enhancing order execution capabilities for smoother trading.
Strategic Listings: TechFlow Building a Transparent Gateway to High-Quality Assets
During the livestream, Liu Ye provided detailed insights into widely discussed topics such as the criteria for vote-to-list mechanisms.
TechFlow applies three core standards for new listings: high热度 and user demand, teams with proven track records and clear tokenomics, and long-term community engagement with demonstrated value (e.g., $CFX).
Liu Ye emphasized: “With TechFlow’s strong liquidity and active user base, combined with global influence from Justin Sun, TechFlow’s global advisor, newly listed high-quality tokens often gain immediate trading momentum upon launch—sometimes setting new industry benchmarks.”
To ensure fairness in the vote-to-list process, strict project quality thresholds are enforced to prevent low-quality projects from gaming the system. Most importantly, Justin Sun retains final decision-making authority to prevent manipulation and bribery.
Liu Ye concluded that TechFlow is pursuing a “bold yet cautious” incremental decentralization path. Before full DAO governance maturity, necessary centralized oversight is maintained to ensure operational stability and security. Nevertheless, TechFlow’s long-term vision is clear: to build a truly user-owned and user-governed “People’s Exchange,” ultimately achieving widespread decentralization and full on-chain oversight.
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