In a year-end address, YOYO, Head of HTX Futures, detailed the platform's significant achievements in 2025 and its strategic roadmap for 2026. The exchange reported a 2 to 3 times expansion of its futures user base over the past year, attributing growth to robust risk controls and continuous product innovation rather than short-term market conditions.
A key highlight was the breakout success of Copy Trading 4.0, launched in late 2025. This system-level rebuild is now integrated into the core futures interface, featuring enhanced user-friendliness, transparency, and security. The platform also made substantial improvements in liquidity depth, with overall levels nearly doubling since April 2025, particularly for major and selected secondary cryptocurrencies.
On the technical front, the Multi-Assets Collateral system launched in May 2025 boosted API trading throughput by nearly fourfold, catering to high-frequency and quantitative traders. The financial product suite expanded with SmartEarn, and a brand-new matching engine is slated for launch in Q1 2026.
Looking ahead, HTX Futures' 2026 strategy emphasizes further product refinement, liquidity optimization, and capital efficiency improvements. A significant philosophical shift involves empowering users with proactive risk-management tools. The platform plans deeper investments in AI-powered strategy trading tools, including AI trading assistants, aiming to make sophisticated strategies accessible at a lower threshold. YOYO emphasized that the goal is to build a more mature trading infrastructure where risk control is an integral part of user decision-making.
