Walking with the Wise: What Important Signals Were Released at the HTX DAO VIP Private Dinner?

In April, the Web3 industry enters one of the busiest phases of the year. Booths, roadshows, roundtable discussions, the density of information is pushed to the limit. But if you have been in this industry long enough, you will know that truly significant conversations do not necessarily happen in the midst of the crowd. On the evening of April 22, HTX DAO held a VIP exclusive dinner, bringing together VIP clients from around the world for this closed-door dialogue.

As the entire industry recalibrates its coordinates during a downward cycle, and topics such as compliance, liquidity, and asset security are repeatedly brought to the forefront, how a platform should establish relationships with its core user group and what kind of relationships to build has become a key issue determining the future landscape of the industry. Through this dinner, Huobi HTX provided its solution.

Making Trust Verifiable

In recent years, with the occurrence of repeated black swan events, the cost of trust in the exchange industry has been rising. Every platform needs to consider why users would be willing to place millions or even tens of millions of dollars with them. Huobi HTX provided a sincere answer: through time, data, and a record of not faltering during extreme market conditions.

As of the first quarter of 2026, Huobi HTX's clean assets remain in the top tier of global offshore exchanges. Amidst overall capital outflows in the exchange industry, Huobi HTX achieved a counter-cyclical increase of over $30 million in asset accumulation. More importantly, in the past year, the trading volume of the platform's SVIP increased by as much as 50%, indicating that more and more high-net-worth players are casting their trust votes with real money.

Making Expectations Respond

To maintain this hard-earned trust, the platform's next steps are crucial. In the opening speech of the dinner, Huobi HTX's global advisor Sun Yuchen candidly responded to the expectations of major clients.

He spoke about $HTX. Recently, $HTX officially became the only fee deduction token for Huobi HTX. Against the backdrop of many platforms gradually weakening the rights of platform tokens, this itself demonstrates a value orientation. Sun Yuchen stated, "This year, our overall approach focuses on empowering with $HTX, solidly improving the fundamentals, and enhancing business and services, rather than considering capital operation matters."

He spoke about ecological synergy. In addition to the steady improvement of Huobi HTX, P Network has also achieved rapid growth after entering 2026, significantly advancing in exchange rankings. "Our strategic thinking is that Huobi HTX is the main site, and P Network is the sub-site, or Huobi Alpha," Sun Yuchen said. P Network moves faster, taking on the launch and experimentation of more cutting-edge assets while maintaining a zero-fee advantage, while Huobi HTX remains steady, focusing on core liquidity and major client services. At the same time, optimizing liquidity between the two platforms will be a top priority, with expectations of doubling improvements this year.

He spoke about fiat channels. According to Sun Yuchen, Huobi HTX is actively promoting the global expansion of its OTC business, collaborating with local regulatory agencies and channels to promote the platform's signature zero-freeze service to more key markets.

"We don't do anything superficial; everything is about real empowerment and change, with significant changes every quarter," Sun Yuchen said.

Making Services Replicable

The real demands of major clients may not be as complex as imagined. For users who have reached a certain scale, market fluctuations may not be the biggest risk. Whether problems can be responded to and resolved in a timely manner, whether the trading experience is smooth, and whether the product mix is comprehensive—these specific scenarios together determine how a major client chooses a platform.

Huobi HTX's upgrades in the SVIP system over the past year are precisely answers to these specific issues. Its core idea is not to "pile up rights," but to redesign service granularity around the real asset management chain of high-net-worth users—asset security, asset allocation, exclusive channels.

The exclusive high-yield earning product line for major clients offers up to 9% annualized returns, complemented by a diversified product structure that can create asset allocation plans to meet various needs; deepening coverage of quality asset pools ensures that clients do not have to wait in line when opportunities arise; one-on-one connections with account managers mean that someone is always online at critical moments. The continuously improving SVIP service system systematically integrates these capabilities.

The true threshold for high-net-worth services lies in stability. It is not difficult to do it once; the challenge is to ensure that every major client's request receives the same level of response each time. This relies on a service system, personnel hierarchy, and operational standards accumulated over many years. The professional accumulation ultimately manifests in these invisible areas. Events like this VIP exclusive dinner are extensions of this service system offline. The platform shares strategic directions with major clients, listens to feedback, judgments, and needs, and then brings these back into the next round of product and service iterations.

Making Co-construction Sustainable

In the latter half of the dinner, the atmosphere became more relaxed. The platform's management and the attending partners spoke freely about the platform's next steps, the direction of the industry, and the real issues encountered by each major client during use.

This is also the significance of this dinner. While many voices in the industry are still chasing short-term narratives and traffic, Huobi HTX chooses to bring the strategic direction back to the users, allowing the group that understands the platform best to participate in the next decisions. "User first" has been said too many times in the exchange industry, and its true weight can only be felt in face-to-face communication with users.

As Sun Yuchen said, such close communication with users has already become normalized at Huobi HTX.

Where will the next dialogue take place? What new ideas will emerge? The answers to these questions are still on the way. But one thing is certain: the channels for dialogue will remain open, leaving space for every partner willing to co-build the ecosystem with the platform.

About HTX DAO

HTX DAO is a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) initiated by Huobi HTX Exchange and supported by the TRON blockchain ecosystem, collaboratively established by community members, early contributors, and global advisors. HTX DAO is committed to building an open governance ecosystem that is user-led, transparent in rules, and highly collaborative, becoming a key engine for promoting the development of decentralized financial systems.

HTX DAO adheres to the principle of "holding tokens means governance," aiming to stimulate global users' consensus and participation, connect community interests with platform values, and explore a new order in the world of crypto finance.