The Rebirth of Order: HTX DAO 2025 Annual Report, From Deflation to a Web3 Financial Autonomy Model
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The Rebirth of Order: HTX DAO 2025 Annual Report, From Deflation to a Web3 Financial Autonomy Model
HTX DAO will be more than just a refined autonomous system—it will be a "free financial hub" governed by users, driven by value, and united by trust.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insights
2025 is a pivotal year for HTX DAO, marking the transition from strategic blueprint to the initial formation of a value-locked ecosystem.
This year, HTX DAO systematically broke free from the limitations of traditional DAO narratives and completed the preliminary construction of a "free financial hub." Whether through accelerated deflation efficiency or deeply rooted on-chain governance, it has powerfully demonstrated its long-term value anchoring strategy of being "sustainable and verifiable," showcasing to the global community a vibrant, user-centric, mechanism-driven DAO ecosystem.
Dual Breakthrough in Value and Scale
In 2025, HTX DAO achieved a dual breakthrough in value and scale across key metrics, fully demonstrating the resilience of its mechanisms and the strong cohesion of its community, reflecting positive market feedback following the implementation of the "free financial hub" strategy:
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Market Capitalization and Market Presence: $HTX reached a total market cap of $1.841 billion and was listed on 28 cryptocurrency exchanges, solidifying its position as a mainstream global crypto asset.
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Subscription and User Growth: Total subscription volume for $HTX earn products exceeded $9 billion, a robust year-on-year increase of over 90%. Nearly 500,000 users participated, with funds allocated to "earning" activities surging dramatically, reflecting unprecedented confidence in the long-term returns of $HTX.
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User Revenue Distribution: Over $30 million in user earnings were distributed, a steady growth of more than 30%, delivering real value back to holders and maturing the community co-growth model.
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Holder Base Expansion: The number of $HTX holders across the network reached 849,900, a net increase of 16.6%, indicating continuous expansion of the user base and significantly broadened community consensus and ecosystem reach.
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Token Deflation Effect: In the first three quarters of 2025, 36.22 trillion $HTX tokens were burned, accounting for 42.2% of total burns to date. This sustained deflationary pressure reinforced the scarcity and long-term value expectations of $HTX.
In 2025, while consolidating its market scale, HTX DAO achieved a qualitative leap in core asset accumulation and user value return. It no longer relies solely on user growth but deeply locks high-value capital through mechanism guarantees and tangible returns, steadily advancing toward its vision of a "free financial hub."
Institutionalized Deflation: Embedding Scarcity into Governance Architecture, Accelerating Burn Efficiency
In 2025, HTX DAO continued its token burn program with an almost "ruthless" discipline. In any crypto economy, burning is not merely a technical act—it's a significant economic signal. This year, HTX DAO’s burn data became the "embodiment of consensus":
As of Q3 this year, HTX DAO has cumulatively burned 85.88 trillion $HTX tokens, worth approximately $163 million. The most recent single burn surpassed 13.12 trillion, setting a new record and ranking among the largest token burns in DAO history.
At the circulating supply level, the effects of the deflationary mechanism are now clearly visible: $HTX burn efficiency increased from 0.78% in Q2 2024 to 1.39% in Q3 2025, with an average quarterly growth rate of 33%. This indicates that the contraction of $HTX supply has entered a stable acceleration phase.
While traditional projects often rely on subjective team decisions for deflation, HTX DAO has embedded deflation into its governance architecture, transforming it into a long-term, community-autonomous consensus.
In July this year, HTX DAO completed a whitepaper upgrade, shifting its economic model from "liquidity donation" to a "burn model." This marks a shift in HTX DAO’s deflation logic—from mere monetary supply adjustment to a structural "value filter" at the institutional level.
In other words, deflation is no longer a one-off or uncertain event, but a sustainable, autonomous process. It institutionalizes the principle of "returning value to the community," gradually becoming a rare example of a Web3 financial self-governance system.
The First Implementation of the "People's Exchange": From "Voting Rights" to "Economic Sovereignty"
2025 marks the year when HTX DAO’s governance framework truly took shape.
On June 30, the HTX DAO listing governance system officially launched, completing a critical leap from "community discussion" to "on-chain execution." This moment can be likened to the "Bretton Woods moment" in DAO history: it not only established community voting rights over resource allocation but also defined the principle of economic sovereignty—where community votes directly determine which trading pairs are listed and receive liquidity incentives, structurally transferring economic power from centralized entities to token holders.
Official data shows that since June 30, HTX DAO has accumulated 11.916 trillion $HTX in on-chain voting, with a total voting value exceeding $3 million, successfully recommending six new token pairs for listing on HTX. This governance action directly boosted the market: $HTX saw a monthly peak price increase of 44.3%, added over 12,000 new holding addresses, and increased TVL by $42 million.
These figures represent the first wave of positive feedback after the launch of the "People's Exchange."
The significance of this model lies in HTX DAO’s successful return of "listing decision rights" to the community, aligning them with $HTX’s value support. By leveraging community consensus to identify trending projects, HTX enhances trading depth and fee revenue, with 50% of income used for $HTX buybacks and burns, thereby creating a cycle of sustained deflation and value reinforcement.
This closed loop of "vote → listing → trading → revenue → burn/dividend" realizes a decentralized case where "DAO governance = market efficiency," offering the most direct and economically meaningful implementation of the "People's Exchange" concept.
Currently, HTX DAO is advancing Vote-to-List 2.0, aiming to integrate on-chain voting with the voting system within HTX, enabling more token holders to participate directly in decision-making. It is also exploring incentive mechanisms such as "voting interest subsidies" to attract broader participation in on-chain governance.
The Second Evolution of HTX DAO: The Rise of an On-Chain Financial System
In 2025, HTX DAO is evolving from an "on-chain autonomous organization" into a coherent, accumulative, and scalable on-chain financial infrastructure system.
The latest version of the whitepaper clarifies the core evolutionary direction of $HTX: governance token × yield token × revenue recycling/burn mechanism. This not only signifies a systematic upgrade in HTX DAO’s economic model but also marks a shift toward anchoring long-term value in real-world use cases and on-chain yield strategies.
Within this system, $HTX transcends the singular role of a traditional DAO governance token, evolving into a central crypto-financial asset integrating trading, governance, yield generation, and cross-chain ecosystems.
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Staking module: Establishes asset-backed relationships, allowing participants to earn quantifiable returns through governance;
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Voting module: Builds an incentivized decision-making structure, ensuring dynamic balance between governance power and economic rights;
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Rewards system: Maps user actions to contribution value, ensuring every form of participation is identifiable and measurable;
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Treasury mechanism: Manages fund inflows, distribution, and regeneration, giving the DAO sustainable financial vitality.
Of greater strategic importance, HTX DAO is not confined to internal governance loops but actively expanding outward to build a "builder ecosystem."
In September this year, HTX DAO launched a global developer program, providing builders with resources, application scenarios, and governance access, focusing particularly on CeFi × DeFi integration and promoting interoperability between centralized exchanges and on-chain applications.
Through these institutionalized and financialized designs, HTX DAO is transforming on-chain governance into an economic infrastructure, injecting stronger autonomy and sustainable growth momentum into the entire $HTX ecosystem.
Anchoring Global Key Nodes: HTX DAO’s Web3 "World Tour"
The spirit of HTX DAO does not exist in isolation on-chain; it must also resonate in the real world.
In 2025, through brand sponsorships and global outreach, HTX DAO brought its decentralized philosophy from code to reality. From Asia’s Hong Kong Consensus Conference and HTX DAO × TRON Hong Kong Night, to the CIS region’s Blockchain Forum, the Middle East-focused HTX DAO Dubai Night and Istanbul Blockchain Week, to global events like Bitcoin 2025 and TOKEN2049 Singapore Afterparty, HTX DAO was present at nearly every major node of the 2025 Web3 industry landscape.
On these international stages, HTX DAO appeared as a "model of on-chain governance," demonstrating how it achieves closure across governance, assets, and ecosystem dimensions, attracting global Builders to co-create through an open ecosystem.
This bottom-up, diffusion-style dissemination is turning HTX DAO into a global carrier of decentralization: showing more people that a truly user-led, value-driven financial and governance community is gradually taking shape on-chain.
The Future: Toward a Sustainable Cycle of Autonomy and Growth
Based on disclosed information, HTX DAO has revealed its roadmap for the next phase—a plan centered on "self-evolution."
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Regularized Listing Governance
Continuously improve the voting system to establish a standardized rhythm for listing new tokens, forming a self-sustaining "vote → list → trade → revenue" loop. In the future, DAO governance outcomes will directly influence exchange listing schedules and resource allocation, realizing a dynamic co-creation model of "community-led markets."
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On-Chain DeFi Empowerment
Building upon established on-chain staking and governance, HTX DAO will continue expanding $HTX’s utility and collaboration boundaries within DeFi, including launching on-chain wealth management, yield aggregation modules, and gradually forming a growth loop where "empowerment is visible and participation is tangible."
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Developer Ecosystem Development
HTX DAO is currently preparing HTX Builder Grants and a global hackathon program, opening funding and resources to developers worldwide. Key focus areas include: governance and data tool development, liquidity/market-making infrastructure, risk control and trading analysis systems, mobile wallets and interfaces, AI × trading, and high-quality DeFi protocol proposals.
Through funding, joint promotion, and ecosystem incubation, HTX DAO aims to enable more Builders to directly participate in building on-chain infrastructure and governance mechanisms.
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CeFi × DeFi Integration
Leveraging HTX as a platform, deeply interconnecting with on-chain applications to deliver seamless experiences where accounts serve as entry points, assets function as credentials, on-chain verification is possible, and benefits are returned.
HTX DAO will combine CeFi’s traffic and security with DeFi’s openness and yield potential through transparent, on-chain verifiable distribution mechanisms, creating a truly integrated "financial super gateway." Ultimately, HTX DAO will not just be a refined autonomous system, but a "free financial hub" governed by users, driven by value, and united by trust.
Clearly, in an era where trust is rewritten by algorithms and power diluted by voting, HTX DAO has proven—with exceptional execution—that autonomy is not chaotic dissolution, but the rebirth of higher-order order.
From extending beyond an exchange to reconstructing financial order, HTX DAO is sailing toward a "free financial hub" where everyone can participate, oversee, and share in the rewards.
And this, perhaps, is the true destination of Web3.
About HTX DAO
HTX DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) initiated with support from HTX and the TRON public blockchain ecosystem, collaboratively built by community members, early contributors, and global advisors. HTX DAO is committed to building an open governance ecosystem led by users, transparent in rules, and efficient in collaboration, serving as a key engine driving the development of decentralized finance.
Adhering to the principle of "holding tokens means governance," HTX DAO aims to inspire global consensus and participation, align community interests with platform value, and explore a new order in the world of crypto finance.
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