Huobi HTX New Asset Weekly Review (12.22–12.28): ZBT +127%, PAYAI +103%, Strong Recovery Across Multiple Sectors
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Huobi HTX New Asset Weekly Review (12.22–12.28): ZBT +127%, PAYAI +103%, Strong Recovery Across Multiple Sectors
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As 2025 draws to a close, sentiment in the crypto market continues to recover, with trading activity heating up amid seasonal momentum. Macroeconomic tailwinds and compelling narratives have driven sector-wide strength, fueling broad-based rebounds across AI, privacy, and Meme sectors. Capital flows are clearly targeting high-growth stories and niche thematic value plays. Several popular assets on HTX delivered outstanding performance over the past week (December 22–28), with ZBT leading the pack with a 127% gain, as investor interest remains concentrated in top-tier themes.
AI Narrative Returns to Forefront: PAYAI, SQD Take Strong Lead
The AI narrative remains the dominant theme of 2025, as accelerating technological adoption drives revaluation of application-layer assets. One key driver behind this week’s strong rebound in the AI sector was Coinbase’s developer team officially launching version 2 of x402, an open-source payment protocol designed for AI agents. The new version natively supports multi-chain payments including Base and Solana-native tokens, and seamlessly integrates traditional channels such as ACH and card networks, significantly enhancing scalability for AI service commercialization.
Fueled by this positive development, assets within the x402 ecosystem showed notable strength. This rally further validates mid-2025 trend projections—AI business models are transitioning from conceptual stages toward scalable commercialization. HTX’s early positioning in these core assets has provided users ample opportunity to capture market momentum.
- PAYAI (PayAI Network): Up 103% this week, part of the x402 AI ecosystem. PayAI is an open-source, decentralized marketplace for AI agents built on ElizaOS, libp2p, IPFS, and Solana. Market attention centers on upgrades to model capabilities and expansion plans, making it a key focal point for capital rotating into the AI space.
- SQD (Subsquid): Up 114%, AI compute infrastructure. SQD Network is a decentralized data lake and query engine that provides developers with high-performance, permissionless data access. Rising expectations around growing compute demand have driven valuation recovery and significantly boosted trading volume, creating strong alignment between narrative and capital flow.
Privacy Protocols Regain Favor: ZBT, ZEC Both Rise
On-chain privacy capability is increasingly seen as foundational infrastructure for the next cycle. The privacy sector continues gaining traction, propelled by shifting policy dynamics and industry restructuring, exhibiting a “new-and-established synergy” market structure. HTX’s broad asset coverage enables users to pursue diversified exposure strategies.
- ZBT (Zerobase): Leading all assets with a 127% weekly gain, a breakout project in the privacy narrative. Zerobase is a decentralized cryptographic infrastructure network supporting products like zkStaking, zkLogin, and ProofYield. It connects institutional-grade DeFi, user privacy protection, and real-world asset (RWA) strategies, ensuring both data privacy and system verifiability and trustworthiness.
- ZEC (Zcash): Up 22%, a classic representative of privacy assets. Zcash is a decentralized, open-source cryptocurrency developed based on the Zerocash Protocol paper presented at an IEEE conference in 2014. It uses zero-knowledge proofs and dual-account mechanisms to ensure transaction anonymity.
Seasonal Meme Rally Emerges: DONKEY, MYRO, HIPPO Rotate Higher
Approaching year-end, Meme sentiment is recovering. Light narratives combined with strong liquidity remain key advantages of Meme assets. Multiple Meme assets on HTX achieved solid gains. Their volatility advantage is amplified by HTX’s efficient trading environment, enabling users to flexibly navigate structural market moves.
- DONKEY: Up 21%, a BSC-based Meme with notable community engagement. The name originates from a post by Binance founder CZ stating “I am a donkey.” In Chinese culture, the donkey symbolizes diligence, representing hardworking individuals.
- MYRO (Myro): Up 29%, a SOL-based Meme. Myro is named after Solana co-founder Raj Gokal’s beloved dog, honoring both him and his pet while responding to widespread demand in crypto for dog-themed narratives.
- HIPPO (sudeng): Up 33%, a SUI-based Meme. $HIPPO is a fan-created meme coin on SUI celebrating Sudeng, the world's cutest hippo. Under new community-driven governance, the project will donate a portion of profits to global wildlife conservation efforts.
Multi-Sector Momentum Builds: DeFi and L1 Ecosystems Rebound Together
Beyond trending narratives, broad-based asset rotation indicates strengthening signs of capital inflows, suggesting that year-end structural momentum may continue.
- 0G (Zero Gravity): Up 38%, part of the DeFi + AI segment. Zero Gravity is a decentralized AI operating system serving as the foundational layer for decentralized AI applications and blockchains. It efficiently coordinates the use of hardware resources such as storage and computing, along with software assets like data and models, to handle the scale and complexity of AI workloads.
- SPK (Spark): Up 17%, benefiting from capital inflows and rising protocol expectations. Spark is an on-chain capital allocator that has deployed $3.86 billion across DeFi, CeFi, and RWA sectors. By automatically adjusting asset allocations dynamically based on market conditions, it enhances capital efficiency while maintaining prudent risk management.
- XPL (Plasma): Up 25%, part of the L1 ecosystem. Plasma is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain built specifically for high-volume, low-cost global stablecoin payments. As the underlying network expands, traffic expectations continue to drive price appreciation amid volatility.
Wealth Effect Becomes Clear: Top Assets All on HTX
As the 2025 market gradually recovers, sector divergence remains pronounced. Selecting the right trading venue and a platform with forward-looking asset offerings will be key to gaining an edge in the new cycle. For most projects on this week’s gainers list, HTX enabled trading early in their development, giving users greater access to participate from the outset.
HTX leverages its sharp listing strategy and robust trading ecosystem to help users efficiently capture opportunities amid complex market conditions. Going forward, HTX will continue refining its platform strategy in line with market trends, user needs, and evolving cycles, expanding high-quality assets and trading depth to deliver more predictable wealth growth pathways. More market insights and asset opportunities await on HTX.
About HTX
Founded in 2013, HTX has evolved over 12 years from a cryptocurrency exchange into a comprehensive blockchain business ecosystem encompassing digital asset trading, financial derivatives, research, investment, incubation, and more.
As a leading global Web3 gateway, HTX adheres to a strategic framework centered on global expansion, ecosystem vitality, wealth creation, security, and compliance, delivering comprehensive, secure, and reliable value and services to cryptocurrency enthusiasts worldwide.
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