Focus on the rotation potential of the SUI ecosystem and the AttentionFi track.

As we enter mid-May, the macro data lull brings a brief calm, yet the sentiment in the crypto market continues to heat up. While mainstream assets are experiencing a volatile upward trend, funds are beginning to rotate into fundamentally solid quality altcoins. In this issue of HTX DeepThink #5, HTX Research Chloe (@ChloeTalk1) presents a macro outlook and strategic layout analysis, focusing on the rotation potential of the SUI ecosystem and the AttentionFi track.

Macro Outlook: Market Sentiment Heats Up, Short-Term Still Bullish

This week, the U.S. lacks significant economic data, and market focus is on the responses from Federal Reserve officials regarding the possibility of "only one rate cut this year." The options market shows a bullish sentiment: the Call/Put open interest ratio is as high as 1.55, with the premiums for call options continuing to rise; meanwhile, the short-term implied volatility (IV) has been compressed to 35–40%, a new 18-month low.

This indicates a market of "high sentiment, low volatility"—under these conditions, Bitcoin may attempt to reach new highs within 30–45 days, potentially breaking through the $105,000 to $115,000 range. However, this "high sentiment + low volatility" often conceals the risks of high leverage accumulation, and if volatility spikes or BTC effectively falls below $100,000, it could trigger a deleveraging sell-off.

Market Strategy: Rotate into Quality Altcoins, Capture Overflowing Funds

In terms of operations, while controlling the total position, allocating some funds to fundamentally solid, highly liquid quality altcoins may capture the overflow momentum brought by Bitcoin's rise. This issue of HTX DeepThink #5 selects potential track targets for your reference.

SUI Ecosystem: Main Chain Hits New High, Leading Projects Still Undervalued

Recently, the SUI main chain's market capitalization reached an all-time high, but its ecosystem projects have yet to see systematic catch-up. This may be a key window for positioning in leading ecosystem projects at low levels. Huobi HTX has already launched two high-potential SUI projects: Haedal and Bluefin.

● Haedal: The leading LST protocol on the SUI chain, holding 76% market share, with extremely high network effects.

● Bluefin: The main Perp DEX in the SUI ecosystem, with a market cap of only $31.6 million, yet has achieved $8.2 million in annualized revenue, with a price-to-sales ratio of only 3.8x, significantly undervalued compared to GMX (9.1x) and Drift (12.4x). It is set to launch a V2 upgrade, introducing a veToken model and user incentives, which is expected to boost both trading activity and protocol revenue.

Against the backdrop of the SUI main chain's continued upward momentum, Haedal and Bluefin, as core infrastructure projects, possess dual potential for valuation recovery and Beta upside, warranting mid-term attention and positioning.

AttentionFi Track: Capturing Bull Market Traffic Dividends

In the current bull market phase, as new projects emerge rapidly, the cost of traffic in the Web3 world has risen sharply. From a traditional user acquisition model perspective, the cost of acquiring users is typically determined by traffic × conversion rate: for example, on platforms like Telegram, Google, or Xiaohongshu, the cost per click is about $0.5–1, with an average conversion rate of 10%, meaning projects need to spend $5–10 to acquire a real retained user. Kaito offers a more efficient "traffic engine": its API charges based on "reputation × high-quality interaction," achieving a 3–4 times increase in real user retention for the same budget, reducing the cost per user to $2–3, significantly lower than other channels, while early collaborations with several popular projects have built a massive user pool. This cost reduction and efficiency improvement have also driven Kaito's rapid expansion—over the past three months, the number of integrated projects has increased from 30 to 120, with usage volume quadrupling.

Meanwhile, the $KAITO community staking volume has reached 19.7 million tokens, and the protocol has repurchased and destroyed 3.7 million tokens, further enhancing the price ceiling. On the Base chain IDO platform Virtuals, users only need to stake ≥5,000 $KAITO to earn Virgen points for IDO quota redemption, creating a closed loop of "staking → points → arbitrage." It is important to note that if a project wishes to launch on Kaito's Yapper Leaderboard, it must invest a significant amount in vote-buying costs and $KAITO staking; in this regard, the team can use GiveRep for zero-cost reputation screening and seed community building, and later integrate with Kaito for explosive operations, similar to the relationships between large and small exchanges. GiveRep has a close relationship with the SUI Foundation, collaborating with popular SUI projects like ika and Typus, and has certain expectations for airdrops. Currently, Huobi HTX has launched $KAITO, and in the increasingly fierce competition for traffic in the bull market, Kaito, through low-cost precise user targeting and protocol deflation design, has become a potential asset worth watching.

Note: The content of this article is not investment advice and does not constitute any offer, solicitation, or recommendation for investment products.

About HTX DeepThink

HTX DeepThink is a crypto market insight column created by Huobi HTX, focusing on global macro trends, core economic data, and hot topics in the crypto industry, injecting new thinking power into the market, helping readers "find order in chaos" in the unpredictable crypto world.

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