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 "people's 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 global cover of Forbes
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 platform's 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 Huobi HTX platform increased by 127% compared with the previous month, and the platform 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 activities are constantly held to promote the user co-governance of the ecosystem. On April 8, the "TRON x HTX DAO 2025 Hong Kong Night" event co-organized by HTX DAO was grandly held in Hong Kong. Many heavyweight guests attended, attracting many community users to participate, and at the same time showing the outside world its long-term commitment to the future of Web3.
In March, Sun Yuchen, founder of TRON and global advisor of Huobi HTX, was featured on the cover of the global edition of Forbes, becoming another Chinese entrepreneur to appear on the cover of the global edition of Forbes 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 HTX's brand reshaping and globalization strategy over the past two years, but also means that it has gained more mainstream attention in the dual development path of industry compliance and innovation.
The wealth effect of new assets has been strongly released: hot assets have increased significantly, and platform activities have continued to heat up
In terms of new assets, relying on its accurate grasp of the market rhythm, Huobi HTX launched the "celebrity coin" TRUMP for the first time, and the highest increase after the launch reached 9 times, becoming a 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 of the BASE chain, which rose by 104%, AVAAI of the SOLANA chain, which rose by 256%, and LUNA, which rose by 312%. In the DeFAI track, GRIFFAIN and GRIFT also achieved nearly doubled growth.
In addition, during the market correction period, Huobi HTX still steadily launched multiple high-quality track leading projects, such as LAYER, which rose by 153%, XION, which rose by 116%, and KAITO, which rose by 99%. The layout of the BSC chain was also rapid, with assets such as TST and MUBARAK being 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 platform's "fast, accurate and stable" asset screening capabilities and launch 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 the 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" at the same time. Nearly 40,000 people participated in the spot trading competition, with a transaction volume of 799 million U, reaching the peak of historical activities in Q1. In March, the SunPump MEME wave, community users' trading sentiment 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 event, and the overall transaction volume during the event 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.
Investment research content continues to be output, product functions are optimized and upgraded: opinions deeply empower users, and user experience is maximized
During Q1, HTX Ventures published 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 are accelerated into real encryption business", as well as the DeFi compliance trend ... href="https://htxventures.medium.com/%E5%8A%A0%E5%AF%86%E5%90%88%E8%A7%84%E5%BC%80%E5%90%AF-%E6%96%B0-defi-%E6%97%B6%E4%BB%A3-rwafi%E5%92%8C%E7%A8%B3%E5%AE%9A%E5%B8%81%E6%94%AF%E4%BB%98%E6%88%90%E4%B8%BA%E6%96%B0%E6%9C%BA%E4%BC%9A-1d3a94351853">Crypto compliance opens the "new DeFi" era, RWAFi and stablecoin payments become new opportunities". At the same time, an English opinion article titled "Striking a Balance between Compliance and Innovation in a Shifting Regulatory Landscape" was also released, which explored the balance between innovation and regulation and provided strong insight support for industry participants. In terms of products, Huobi HTX continues to upgrade a number of products to comprehensively improve users' transaction convenience and capital utilization efficiency. The most important of these is the new upgrade of the C2C trading model - the launch of the "High-quality C2C Trading Zone" "Huobi Selection Station" to strictly select 0 frozen merchants, buy U at the cheapest and sell U at the safest, and create the most user-friendly C2C platform.
At the same time, the experience of the coin subscription page has been upgraded. The coin subscription account now supports automatic subscription and redemption, and the USDT 1:1 subscription USDD current coin subscription function has been launched to help users flexibly manage assets and improve revenue efficiency. The "0 yuan purchase" distribution experience of contract positions has been optimized; the asset page has added deposit and withdrawal order information to make the flow of users' 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 users to retrieve their accounts.
Risk prevention and control and service are equally important to ensure user transaction security
In terms of security, Huobi HTX continued to strengthen the construction of risk control systems in the first quarter of 2025, issued more than 1.28 million security reminders to users, removed 17 phishing websites and fake APP download websites; successfully intercepted 5 fraudulent withdrawals, saving users about $75,000 in losses; assisted external parties in freezing stolen funds of more than $560,000; added 13,832 blacklist addresses, and intercepted 8 black address recharges, involving more than $810,000.
At the same time, the platform's asset reserve rate remained above 100% in the first quarter, and regularly issued reserve proof reports to bring higher transparency to platform assets. At the same time, the Merkle tree proof mechanism was upgraded this quarter, and the PoR data memory storage was upgraded to the TiDB storage method. The overall asset precipitation 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 of Huobi HTX's official website at any time to view the monthly updated reserve proof report.

In terms of customer service, Huobi HTX's customer service team has served more than 100,000 users and efficiently handled more than 200,000 questions, with a satisfaction rate of up to 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 has achieved gratifying results in multiple dimensions such as user growth, new asset performance, security, product optimization and brand building, laying a solid foundation for the annual goal. Looking to the future, Huobi HTX will continue to uphold the concept of "user first", rely on the HTX DAO governance system to promote product and ecological construction, continuously strengthen asset screening and product innovation, and help more users share the wealth dividends of the encryption era.
About Huobi HTX
Huobi HTX was established 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 world's leading Web3 portal, Huobi HTX adheres to the development strategy of global expansion, ecological prosperity, wealth effect, and safety and compliance, and provides comprehensive, safe and reliable value and services for virtual currency enthusiasts around the world.
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