From Trading to Empowerment: HTX Unveils 2025 Mid-Year Performance and Strategic Roadmap

Panama, July 29, 2025 – HTX, a leading global crypto exchange, recently announced its robust performance for the first half of 2025, demonstrating resilient growth in both user base and trading volume despite macro headwinds and a shifting regulatory ￰1￱ mark the occasion, HTX held a livestreamed strategy session on July 22, hosted by Molly, a leading voice within the HTX DAO ￰2￱ session featured a detailed review of HTX and HTX DAO’s achievements in the first half of the year, alongside a preview of key initiatives planned for the second ￰3￱ user acquisition and asset expansion to DAO governance upgrades and global compliance, both platforms continue to push the boundaries of user empowerment and ecosystem growth in the crypto space.

A Growth Paradigm Backed by Strategic Focus While many crypto exchanges experienced stagnation or even recession in the first half of 2025, HTX defied market gravity with strong double-digit growth: ● User base surged past 50 million, marking a 14% increase in the past six months ● Trading volume rose by 17% YoY, with traders increasing by 11% ● In Q1, HTX stood out as the only Top 10 exchange to post positive trading volume growth, despite broad market weakness The third-party data strongly supports HTX’s ￰4￱ of end-May, at a time when global capital inflows became increasingly selective, HTX led the industry across 24H/7D/30D net inflows, reinforcing its status as a trusted “safe harbor” amid ￰5￱ these numbers lies HTX’s long-term commitment to high-quality assets, emerging narratives, and enhanced user ￰6￱ platform secured early spots in key narratives like meme coins, AI, and stablecoins, and was among the first to launch breakout tokens in these ￰7￱ has also reportedly emerged as a first mover in stablecoin ￰8￱ early signals from regulators and institutions this year, HTX identified stablecoins as a critical bridge between traditional finance and Web3, essential for broader crypto adoption and large-scale ￰9￱ long-term ecosystem value over short-term profit, the platform launched six major stablecoins, including USD1, in May, accelerating its exploration in this sector.

Meanwhile, HTX DAO continued to build its system infrastructure beyond token price, introducing a $HTX deflationary mechanism and deepening community ￰10￱ Q2, $HTX burn volume rose by 15% quarter-over-quarter, bringing total burned value to $136 million, nearly 10% of its market ￰11￱ demonstrates HTX DAO’s commitment to value anchoring and deflationary tokenomics. *View the full H1 2025 HTX performance report: ￰0￱ the Future with User Empowerment at the Core After a foundational first half, HTX is doubling down on its long-term goal of building a decentralized, fully transparent “People’s Exchange,” while HTX DAO is entering a new phase centered on community-driven governance. ● Climbing the compliance curve via on-chain value allocation According to Molly, HTX DAO is actively exploring partnerships with compliant U.

S.-based ￰12￱ regulatory complexity has slowed progress, the strategic intent remains clear and unwavering. Additionally, a newly updated HTX DAO whitepaper, now under legal review, will enshrine a mechanism to burn 50% of quarterly revenue in $HTX. “This signals HTX DAO’s shift toward deeper compliance and true decentralization,” said Molly. “By transparent revenue allocation and token burn mechanism, we’re reinforcing community trust and creating long-term value for $HTX holders.” ● Shifting governance and rewarding rights to the community through token empowerment HTX DAO’s second-half priority is token-based ￰13￱ the existing voting and token recommendation mechanisms, new initiatives will further decentralize governance and incentivize participation: ￰14￱ Treasury System : A share of trading fees will flow into a community-managed treasury, funding ecosystem growth and innovation. 2.

On-Chain Point-Based Reward System: Community engagement, such as posting, content sharing, or project referrals, will be recorded ￰15￱ will be rewarded via future token airdrops, transforming participation into ￰16￱ claimed that these mechanisms represent a pivot handover of platform governance and revenue allocation rights, and they will redefine the user-platform relationship in the Web3 era. “It is just getting started,” she added. “More token utility and holder rewards are in the pipeline.” ● A comprehensive product upgrade for an improved experience In today’s market, a long-term vision and user-centric products are ￰17￱ is responding with a renewed focus on product innovation to create a more secure and intuitive trading ￰18￱ H1 2025, HTX launched P2P Premium, the industry’s first P2P trading zone featuring high ￰19￱ risk-factor detection, strict KYC enforcement, and 24/7 manual reviews, the platform guarantees zero payment anomalies and zero fund freezes, a new benchmark for P2P trading ￰20￱ Q3, HTX brings a full app upgrade across 20+ products, including spot, margin, and futures ￰21￱ will enjoy enhanced UX, visual refreshes, and seamless order execution.

A Fair, Transparent Path for Quality Asset Listings The live stream also addressed the community’s questions on token recommendation standards for listing. HTX’s listing framework is built around three pillars of strong community demand, a proven team and clear tokenomics, and the long-term commitment to community-building and value creation (e. g., $CFX). “Backed by robust liquidity and an active user base, HTX helps premium projects attract immediate market ￰22￱ the global reach of our advisor Justin Sun, HTX listings often spark industry-wide momentum,” said ￰23￱ protect the integrity of the token recommendation, strict quality thresholds and anti-rigging safeguards are in place.

Ultimately, Justin Sun plays an influential advisory role, offering strategic expertise and insights to support HTX’s leadership, ensuring fairness and preventing manipulation or ￰24￱ is taking the “bold yet cautious” approach to ￰25￱ the DAO’s governance maturation phase, temporary centralized safeguards ensure system stability. HTX’s ultimate goal is to institutionalize a fully decentralized, user-governed exchange model with verifiable on-chain ￰26￱ post From Trading to Empowerment: HTX Unveils 2025 Mid-Year Performance and Strategic Roadmap first appeared on HTX Square .