Huobi HTX releases October report card: overall spot depth improved, Earn rate hikes accompany users in "Warm Winter Together"

Huobi HTX reported that BTC/USDT spot market depth improved in October, with 0.01% depth up 42% and 0.05% depth up 78%, as the exchange expanded its tradable stock and ETF offerings to 307 assets and pushed cumulative TradFi trading volume past $7.5 billion, including $1.5 billion added during the month. The platform also launched a "Warm Winter" yield-boost campaign on Oct. 31, offering 7-day fixed-term products at up to 10% annualized yield on BTC, ETH, TRX and the USDT, USDC, USDS and USDD stablecoins, with per-user subscription caps of $2 million equivalent per token. USDT borrowing rates were quoted at 4.75%–5.3% annualized, or as low as 3.84% for large clients, while USDT borrowing balances rose 18.6% month-over-month and leveraged trading volume jumped more than 128% during its autumn leverage promotion. HTX DAO burned about 9.39 trillion $HTX tokens worth roughly $15.48 million in its third-quarter 2026 burn, up 25.6% from the prior quarter, bringing cumulative burn and donation totals to 127.17 trillion tokens under a mechanism that commits 50% of Huobi HTX revenue to quarterly buybacks and burns. The results matter as a gauge of whether depth gains and yield incentives can retain volume through a weaker market; next up is the leverage promotion running to Nov. 25 and the durability of TradFi and earn-product demand into the next quarter.