HTX DAO officially launches the "Token Listing and Delisting Governance Mechanism": Moving towards a true era of community consensus decision-making

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From Peripheral Governance to Core Business: The Significance of DAO Participation in Asset Screening

$HTX, as the core equity asset of HTX DAO, allows holders to participate in the governance of Huobi HTX exchange, while $HTX can gain value support from the platform's trading volume and fee income. According to the official economic model, the Huobi HTX platform will use 50% of its revenue for $HTX buybacks and burns each quarter, directly linking "trading activity" with "$HTX scarcity."

In other words: the more quality coins that are listed, the more trading volume is generated, which allows the platform to produce higher fee income, thus driving the scale of $HTX buybacks and burns. This creates a clear value closed-loop path.

At the very front of this value chain is the screening mechanism for "listing and delisting assets." By introducing a DAO governance mechanism, community members holding $HTX have the right to recommend, vote, and discuss, bringing truly quality, popular, and consensus-driven projects to the platform; at the same time, standards can be set to promote the exclusion of "low liquidity, high risk, and non-compliant" coins.

This not only enhances the activity and security of the platform's asset pool but also increases the transparency, fairness, and consensus of the listing process through democratic mechanisms. For the community, this represents a progression from "holding coins equals holding power" to "holding coins equals decision-making."

Governance Mechanism Design: From Proposals to Voting, Building a Closed-loop Process

According to the HIP-005 proposal, this time HTX DAO will adopt a "phased approach with pilot mechanisms prioritized" to gradually establish a "recommendation for listing/delisting" mechanism, with the community committee as the core governance body.

The governance logic of the entire mechanism covers six major processes: proposal, recommendation, preliminary review, public discussion, voting, and execution:

Project Recommendation and Proposal: Any community member who meets the proposal threshold can submit a new coin recommendation or delisting proposal. Recommendations must include standardized documentation templates, including project background, liquidity, community activity, safety assessment, and more.

Committee Preliminary Review: The DAO committee will conduct a preliminary screening to ensure that the project is compliant, safe, and has certain liquidity and community interest.

Public Discussion Period: All projects that pass the preliminary review will be publicly released for community members to raise questions, support, or provide supplementary materials, enhancing transparency.

$HTX User Voting: Users holding $HTX can participate in voting at a certain ratio, and the final results will form a recommendation list or a delisting watchlist.

Exchange Evaluation and Execution: The Huobi HTX platform will make the final judgment based on community results, combined with internal risk control models, technical reviews, and compliance requirements.

Subsequent Mechanism Linkage: Including fee incentives, new coin Launchpool, trading competitions, etc., can be jointly initiated by the DAO and project parties to stimulate market vitality.
The entire mechanism will start with "coin recommendations" and gradually explore the linkage scenarios of "delisting observation" and "asset governance," ultimately moving towards the vision of "DAO-led asset ecosystem construction."

Unlocking Governance Dividends: Empowering $HTX Tokens, Activating the Consensus Ecosystem

After the mechanism is implemented, HTX DAO will not only be a governance community but will gradually evolve into an "ecological curator" for optimizing the asset structure of the Huobi HTX platform.

Directly driving the value of $HTX tokens: The more popular new coins are listed, the higher the fee income, the greater the destruction of $HTX, and the further enhancement of token scarcity. If recommended projects perform well, they may enter Launchpool, wealth management areas, contracts, and other ecological scenarios in the future, generating a chain reaction.

Incentive value for governance users: If recommended projects are successfully listed and actively traded, recommenders or voters are likely to receive fee refunds, point incentives, and other benefits. Community governance actions will be recorded, and in the future, this will support a "governance credit mechanism" for obtaining Launchpool whitelist, new coin airdrops, and more.

Value for optimizing the platform's asset structure: By using consensus screening and platform risk control as dual safeguards, the quality of listed coins is improved, reducing issues like "zombie coins" and "exit scams." The DAO will supervise the platform's behavior, enhancing Huobi HTX's governance transparency and user trust in the industry.

In other words, this mechanism will achieve a feedback loop among governance rights, trading activity, platform revenue, and token value, initiating a transformation experiment from a centralized platform to a "community co-governance ecosystem."

DAO Enters Deep Waters: Community Governance is Rewriting Exchange Operational Logic

The biggest highlight of this proposal from HTX DAO lies not in any specific mechanism itself, but in the "paradigm shift in governance" it represents.

In the past, the "listing rights" of exchanges were often highly centralized, with the community only passively accepting the platform's decisions on asset listings and delistings. However, this governance structure is being rewritten. Through the DAO recommendation system, the Huobi HTX platform is returning part of the "entry decision-making power" to the community and endowing $HTX with more practical scenario value.

This is not only an upgrade in governance but also a reconstruction of ecological logic: HTX DAO is becoming part of the platform ecosystem rather than an external appendage. The community's judgment, organizational ability, and voting enthusiasm will determine whether the Huobi HTX platform can truly build a triadic governance structure of "exchange - community - project party."
For the entire industry, this governance path also holds significant experimental value. It demonstrates that DAOs are not only needed in DeFi, NFTs, and blockchain games; centralized exchanges can also introduce DAO mechanisms to enhance transparency, increase user participation, and improve operational efficiency and asset quality.
This also means that DAOs are no longer just an idealistic concept but are becoming the core institutional form with the most practical value and economic incentive mechanisms.

In Conclusion: Let Governance Create Value, Let Consensus Become Power

HIP-005 is not just a governance proposal; it is the beginning of a consensus path for the platform.

It encourages every $HTX holder to think: What assets can I promote to be listed with my $HTX tokens, besides voting? Which trading pairs will bring higher fees? Does my voting behavior also empower my holdings?

In this sense, we look forward not only to an innovation in the listing process but also to a profound transformation led by the DAO, connecting platform revenue, asset quality, token value, and governance participation.

The future is here; governance is consensus, and consensus is value.

HTX DAO is on the way.

About HTX DAO

As a multi-chain deployed decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), HTX DAO showcases an innovative governance approach. Unlike traditional corporate structures, it adopts a decentralized governance structure composed of diverse groups, collectively committed to promoting the success of this organization. Its unique ecosystem advocates open values and encourages all ecological participants to propose suggestions that can facilitate the development of HTX DAO.

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