There has been a lot of controversy and attention in the blockchain community regarding the airdrop of ZK (zkSync) tokens. In response, as a people's exchange, Huobi HTX has launched the 13th special session for voting on whether ZK (zkSync) should be listed on Huobi HTX.Currently, the 13th PrimeVote voting special session has opened on Huobi HTX, and the activity will continue until 20:00 on June 22 (UTC+8). Users who hold "rockets" can participate in the voting.

Encrypted data company Kaiko released its Q2 2024 exchange liquidity report, ranking Huobi HTX's liquidity tied for 4th among the 43 mainstream centralized exchanges it surveyed. According to the report, the liquidity of the exchange was evaluated based on five liquidity indicators: trading volume, trading volume contribution, +/-1 market depth, coefficient of variation (CV) dispersion, and market quality. The data shows that Huobi HTX's scores are at a relatively high level in the industry, with an average trading volume of up to 60.5 billion US dollars.

Huobi HTX VIP customer service director was invited to attend the roundtable forum "Conductors in the World of Cryptocurrencies. What Top Exchanges Think about 2024?" at Blockchain Life 2024. She pointed out that DeFi, NFT, metaverse, and AI have developed rapidly in the past two years, with many innovative technologies and projects emerging, especially the AI field in its early stages, which is worth paying attention to. As one of the top exchanges, Huobi HTX needs to take on greater responsibilities and promote the development of these fields. In the future, they will communicate and cooperate with more developer communities, and hold hackathons and other activities, hoping to discover some excellent development teams and projects early on. At the same time, they will provide certain support for these excellent projects in terms of listing, assisting the project parties to enter the trading field more quickly. Finally, they will assist in improving, implementing operation and market expansion plans to promote the development of a wider Web3 ecosystem. In addition, regarding the increasingly complex network security threats, she stated that Huobi HTX has cooperated with third-party custody service providers such as Fireblocks and has implemented Merkle Tree Reserve Proof to provide users with comprehensive protection mechanisms and create a trusted trading environment.

Huobi HTX announced that the 21st new coin mining (PrimePool) will be launched at 20:00 on April 12th and will end at 20:00 on April 22nd (UTC+8). Users can share 1.8 million ASTO rewards by locking $HTX. The 21st new coin mining activity uses $HTX mining, and the minimum personal total lock-up is 156,250,000 $HTX, which can be withdrawn at any time. The number of tokens participants receive per hour will be distributed proportionally based on the actual $HTX locked by everyone, and different lock-up amounts will have different reward coefficients.

Huobi HTX officially announced the launch of the first strongest trader long-short profit PK competition from March 25th to April 3rd. The announcement shows that there will be 10 traders and their new partners automatically grouped into long and short camps, with 5 traders in each camp. After the event, the strongest trader from each camp will be selected based on comprehensive evaluation of trading volume, profit, and winning rate. During the competition, in addition to the regular invitation rebate income, when the trader and their new partner accumulate a contract trading volume exceeding 500,000 USDT, they can share 50-10,000 USDT of contract experience gold. The higher the contract trading volume, the more rewards they can get, and the trader can allocate it by themselves. In addition to the above rewards, the two strongest traders will also receive up to 10,000 USDT of contract experience gold. After the event, the list will be announced through Huobi live broadcast and X Space, and the strongest trader will be awarded a trophy.

According to the announcement from Huobi HTX, Huobi HTX has completed the airdrop distribution of HTX DAO governance token HTX. Users can check the airdrop in the asset-spot account. Huobi HTX will continue to support HTX DAO in airdropping $HTX to on-chain TRX and USDT holders, and take snapshots of users' assets holding TRX, USDT, and WSTUSDT on the platform. The subsequent snapshot time is from April 2024 to August 2024, at 12:00:00 (GMT+8) on the 30th of each month. It is reported that HTX DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization deployed on multiple chains. HTX token is not only an asset, but also the core of HTX DAO governance. The HTX token airdrop of HTX DAO is only distributed to exchanges that publicly support the airdrop activity. Exchanges must prepare relevant technical support in advance to ensure that users can receive the airdrop.

With the completion of the Dencun Upgrade, Ethereum and its associated ecosystem tokens are showing robust performance. Additionally, the launch of mainnets by modular projects and Ethereum Layer-2s further reinforces market confidence in the Ethereum ecosystem. The narrative of liquid restaking (LRT) has started to attract capital flows with the surge of EigenLayer projects. However, is the path of ETH -> LST - > LRT a catalyst for the Ethereum ecosystem or merely a nesting doll as most people claim?

According to the Huobi HTX page, Huobi HTX has updated the Merkle Tree asset proof data for March 2024. The specific reserve ratios for this update are: USDT 100% (Huobi assets 611,895,890), BTC 101% (Huobi assets 26,196), ETH 102% (Huobi assets 112,481), TRX 103% (Huobi assets 9,717,203,329). Among them, USD T and ETH data already include stUSDT, USDT-T-Bills assets, and BETH, stETH. Currently, Huobi HTX's reserve ratio remains above 100%, meaning that Huobi wallet assets exceed the total assets held by users. Huobi HTX has sufficient reserve funds to ensure the safety of user assets. Huobi HTX will continue to regularly disclose to the public to ensure that users can deposit and withdraw assets safely and at any time.

According to official sources, Huobi HTX officially launched Liquid Restaking on February 29th at 17:00 (UTC+8). Participants can register with their spot balances to share rewards, including early airdrops for projects such as EigenLayer, Puffer, Merlin Chain, BounceBit, as well as token airdrop rewards for ETH, USDT, HTX, TRX, and other supported tokens. Users can click on the "Liquid Restaking" option in the relevant entrance of the activity to enter the special page and activate relevant tokens. By holding more than $1 worth of BTC, ETH, USDT, HTX, TRX, and other supported tokens in their spot accounts through deposits, trades, and other activities, users can earn points to redeem rewards.

HTX, a technology company, has withdrawn its application for a virtual asset trading platform license in Hong Kong. The move comes just three days after the initial application was submitted. While the reason for the withdrawal is unknown, it is speculated that it may be linked to increasing regulatory scrutiny in the region. Despite this setback, HTX is expected to continue its global expansion strategy.