Half of 2026 has passed. The cryptocurrency market has not been calm this half year, experiencing multiple rounds of hot topic rotations including AI, RWA, stablecoins, and TradFi, with market opportunities constantly switching and fluctuating. Users are also increasingly concerned about a question: which platform can capture hot topics in real-time while being safe and stable enough?

For over 59.49 million registered users worldwide, Huobi HTX presented a compelling half-year report. According to DeFiLlama data, Huobi HTX has repeatedly ranked at the top for single-day/single-week net inflows. At the same time, the platform continues to advance its global compliance layout and has received multiple international awards such as the Annual Best P2P Platform and the Annual Best Web3 Venture Capital Institution, with its brand influence consistently rising. Behind these numbers, it means more and more users are placing their assets, trades, and investment opportunities on Huobi HTX.

The wealth effect of popular assets is obvious, with spot trading volume nearing $400 billion

For average investors, the biggest feeling this year is that the market hot topic shifts are getting faster. The MEME just ended, and AI took over; after AI, it was RWA, BTCFi, stablecoins, TradFi... many projects even saw several-fold increases in just a few days.

In the first half of the year, Huobi HTX selectively launched 58 new assets around market hotspots, covering almost all popular tracks such as MEME, AI, RWA, BTCFi, and stablecoins, strictly filtering according to the principle of "launch what is popular," selecting a batch of benchmark wealth effect assets. The Chinese MEME asset "Laozi" saw a maximum increase of 573% after its launch, and "I’m coming" increased by 412%; in the AI track, ELSA surged to 620%, while BNKR and RIVER saw increases of 162% and 282% respectively. Many users encountered and purchased these popular coins for the first time on Huobi HTX.

What is even more valuable is the ability to "jump the gun." Huobi HTX made early releases on multiple top assets. After jointly launching Billions Network (BILL), its market cap quickly surged past $2 billion, with an increase of 141%; after launching CHIP, several exchanges followed suit; the jointly launched RWA project BTW saw a maximum increase of 388%; after ZEST's launch, it increased by 131%. By Q2, the market narrative shifted towards RWA, AI computing power, and stablecoin assets, and Huobi HTX took the lead in launching the RWA leader RE, which saw an increase of 145%; the AI computing asset OpenGradient (OPG) increased by 118%; the narrative asset megaETH ecosystem stablecoin CAP was also included. At the same time, for projects with insufficient liquidity and long-term lack of operation, Huobi HTX continually promoted a delisting mechanism, optimizing asset quality through survival of the fittest, allowing users to allocate more funds to genuinely valuable and liquid projects.

The numbers for spot trading are more intuitive. In the first half of the year, the number of spot trading users exceeded 420,000, with a total trading volume of $379 billion. The supported trading pairs have surpassed 612, covering mainstream assets, popular tracks, and high-heat new projects, providing a deep, responsive, and secure trading environment for global users. At the same time, to capitalize on the World Cup hotspots, prediction activities were launched, and ongoing trading peak competitions attracted over ten thousand participants, making trading not just about placing orders but a new experience combining interaction and rewards.

Not just buying coins, Huobi earns coins keeps assets generating income

More and more users are beginning to realize that relying solely on trading is not the most efficient way to utilize assets. In the first half of this year, over 120,000 users subscribed to Huobi earn coins, with a total subscription amount exceeding $4.1 billion.

Stablecoins are still the most popular choice. USDT, USDC, and USDD flexible products achieved a maximum annualized yield of 10%; 50 new flexible products for popular coins were launched with maximum annualized yields of 20%, totaling over $500 million in subscriptions and participation from 50,000 people. For high-net-worth users, Huobi HTX also launched VIP flexible products, initially supporting USDT with a maximum annualized yield of 9%, while maintaining flexible subscriptions and redemptions, allowing large assets to maintain a high fund utilization efficiency. For many long-term coin holders, assets are no longer just "waiting for appreciation" but are genuinely generating "daily income."

At the same time, contract players' funds are also not idle. After the upgrade of Yubi Treasure, the maximum annual yield surged to 7.21%, and it has stabilized around 2.5% for nearly six months. Moreover, the assets deposited can also be used as contract margins, enabling trading and earning coins at the same time; USDD Yubi Treasure also has an exclusive fixed annual yield of 4%.

Huobi HTX takes the lead in laying out the TradFi ecosystem, with intelligent products making AI an investment assistant

In 2026, a new trend is forming—more and more cryptocurrency users hope to trade digital assets alongside global traditional financial assets. Huobi HTX is the pioneer in the TradFi track.

In the first half of the year, Huobi's contract trading volume was nearly $500 billion, with trading pairs surpassing 350, including a trading volume of over $1.5 billion in the TradFi (traditional financial assets) sector, covering popular fields such as AI, gold, commodities, US stocks, ETFs, aerospace, and new energy with 129 different assets. Not only that, in May of this year, Huobi HTX also took the lead in launching popular Pre-IPO assets like SpaceX, OpenAI, and Anthropic, providing users with more diverse investment options. During the earlier part of the first half, it also hit the rhythm of geopolitical conflicts and energy tensions, making cyclical assets like crude oil, metals, and natural gas particularly popular.

At the same time, the contract system has also undergone a significant underlying upgrade. A series of features, including improved full margin fund efficiency, independent leverage per position, smart following order, AI trader recommendations, mobile grid, and automatic margin top-up, have been gradually launched, making professional trading simpler. For average users, an increasing number of complex strategies are now automatically completed by the product. In the first half of the year, the following order service grew against the trend: the number of traders increased by 53% quarter-on-quarter, trading volume increased by 74%, and following order users' trading volume increased by 44%. Those looking for convenience can also try the contract grid, which reached a trading volume of 1.18 billion USDT in the first half of the year; a mobile grid will also be launched in early July, allowing the market to move autonomously and the grid to adjust itself without the need for constant monitoring.

In the first half of this year, almost all core products of Huobi HTX were upgraded. After optimizing the app's startup performance, the startup speed on iOS improved by over 55%, and around 44% on Android—significantly reducing the wait time when opening the app. The platform has also added professional features such as a TradFi market leaderboard, token economics display, and more K-line indicators. Notably, the AI product "Huobany AI" was officially launched, helping users interpret market trends, summarize information, and proactively recommend coin-earning products, essentially placing a 'market assistant' inside the app, greatly lowering the barrier for users to access market information. Additionally, a unified activity center and a fully revamped live broadcast room have also been launched over these past six months, allowing users to more conveniently participate in various platform activities.

Global layout continues to advance, HTX DAO ecosystem expansion and deflation mechanism are progressing simultaneously

HTX Research and HTX Ventures continue to serve as important industry "watchtowers" for Huobi HTX. In the first half of 2026, the team published a total of 6 major research reports focusing on core topics such as AI, RWA, stablecoins, TradFi, geopolitics, and the correlation with the cryptocurrency market, including the report titled “2025 Annual Review: Cryptocurrency Assets Move Towards Mainstream Adoption”, “The Rise of Yield-Bearing Currency: How Crypto Neobanks Are Challenging the Traditional Banking Model”, “RWA Perps: A New Frontier in the On-Chain Expansion of Global Financial Markets”, and launched the Q3 forward-looking report “Liquidity Defines the Crypto Market: A New Crypto Order Under Global Liquidity Repricing”, delivering in-depth research content; they also established a long-term content brand HTX DeepThink, publishing 73 market insight articles in the first half of the year and consistently releasing weekly market reviews to help users establish a clearer investment framework in complex market conditions.

Offline, Huobi HTX organized and prepared a total of 17 brand events in the first half of the year, covering key markets such as Southeast Asia and Turkey, continuously deepening the global brand layout through industry summits, high-end dinners, and regional collaborations. Additionally, the platform has won multiple international awards such as the Annual Best P2P Platform and the Annual Best Web3 Venture Capital Institution, further enhancing brand credibility and industry recognition.

In the first half of 2026, while promoting the development of the $HTX ecosystem, HTX DAO also continues to enhance its long-term value through a transparent deflationary mechanism. Official announcements indicate that HTX DAO successfully completed two token burns on January 15 and April 15, 2026, totaling 1.1032 trillion $HTX burned and donated, exceeding 11% of the total issuance, with an average annual deflation rate of about 5.5%. This ongoing deflationary mechanism has made $HTX one of the few governance tokens in the industry to execute a long-term, large-scale public burn plan. Meanwhile, HTX DAO continues to improve usage scenarios and community governance systems, including rights upgrades, revenue scene expansions, AI × Web3 ecosystem explorations, community consensus maintenance, and developer ecosystem construction. Through programs like the Genesis Program, Hackathon, and Grant, they connect developers, project parties, and communities, enhancing the confidence of long-term holders.

C2C continues to maintain a record of 0 freezes, making security a long-term competitive advantage

For many new users, the first concern when entering the cryptocurrency market is not profit but security. Since its launch, the Huobi Selection Station has maintained a record of 0 freezes, making it the industry's only C2C platform that continuously publicly discloses "0 freeze record." At the same time, Huobi HTX has further introduced the SVIP exclusive station, providing high-net-worth users with a higher transaction rate, higher standard services, and a safer trading environment, gradually completing a full lifecycle asset service system from ordinary users to high-net-worth users.

Meanwhile, Huobi HTX is also continuously enhancing platform transparency through Merkle Tree Proof of Reserves (PoR). The latest data shows that as of July 1, 2026 (UTC+8), the reserve ratio of mainstream assets such as BTC, ETH, TRX, USDs, HTX, XRP, DOGE, and SOL has maintained over 100%. Huobi HTX promises to adhere to the 1:1 reserve principle to ensure that user assets can be traded and withdrawn at any time. It is worth noting that Huobi HTX has publicly disclosed PoR data for 45 consecutive months, becoming one of the earliest platforms in the industry to maintain a routine disclosure of reserve proofs, allowing users to truly achieve "visible reserves, verifiable assets, and safer usage."

Huobi HTX continues to promote global compliance construction. In the first half of the year, Huobi HTX continued to advance licensing communications in Kyrgyzstan, obtained a No Objection Certificate (NoC) for PVARA in Pakistan, and continued to promote local company registration and VASP licenses, while the VARA framework in Dubai is also being improved, further solidifying its global compliance foundation.

Transitioning from a "trading platform" to a "global digital asset service platform"

Reviewing the first half of 2026, it can be seen that Huobi HTX's development focus is not just on trading volume growth. From launching popular assets in real-time to enhancing the efficiency of earnings products; from expanding global asset allocation through TradFi to AI-assisted trading, and continuously promoting global compliance and security construction, Huobi HTX is building a one-stop digital asset service platform covering trading, earning coins, research, asset management, and global investment opportunities.

For users, these changes will ultimately translate to the most intuitive experience: more opportunities, better products, safer assets, and more efficient investments. As new narratives such as AI, RWA, stablecoins, and TradFi continue to evolve, the second half of the cryptocurrency market will welcome more new growth opportunities. Huobi HTX is also continuing to provide more comprehensive services for global digital asset users with richer assets, more refined products, and a more global layout.

The market is always changing, but for Huobi HTX, being able to grasp every hot topic and safeguard each user's asset security is the real answer determining the direction of the second half of the year.

About Huobi HTX

Huobi HTX was established in 2013 and has evolved from a cryptocurrency exchange into a comprehensive blockchain business ecosystem over 13 years, covering digital asset trading, financial derivatives, research, investment, incubation, and other businesses.

As a leading global Web3 portal, Huobi HTX adheres to a development strategy of global expansion, ecological prosperity, wealth effect, and security compliance, providing comprehensive, secure, and reliable value and services for virtual currency enthusiasts worldwide.