HTX “Peak Tournament II” Concludes with a Bang: Total Trading Volume Exceeds $17.5 Billion USDT; “AI Team Captains” Usher in a New Era of Competition

After over 40 days of intense competition, the second season of Huobi HTX’s flagship annual event—the Summit Tournament—has officially concluded. This Web3 trading extravaganza, bridging spot and derivatives markets while integrating competitive gameplay with social engagement, delivered an impressive performance backed by a lavish $1.5 million prize pool and highly disruptive format innovations.

According to official data, the second season of the Summit Tournament attracted nearly 65,000 participants across three progressive stages—Points Competition, Individual Challenge, and Team Competition—with total trading volume surpassing $17.5 billion USDT. Amid significant price volatility in major assets—including Bitcoin and Ethereum—in Q1 this year, Huobi HTX successfully established a world-class competitive arena for global investors, delivering both wealth-generation potential and social entertainment value.

Team Competition Shines: Breaking Conventions with “AI-Led Trading” and “Unlimited Team Formation”

The upgraded Team Competition served as the grand finale and biggest highlight of this season, igniting unprecedented user participation.

Statistics show that the Team Competition alone drew 26,000 global users who formed nearly 500 uniquely styled teams. Its extraordinary success stemmed from three groundbreaking product and format innovations introduced by Huobi HTX:

“AI Team Captains” Break Through Boundaries—Human-AI Collaboration Scores First Victory: For the first time, the tournament introduced AI-led trading. The debut AI team captain, “DeepMind Trader,” reached its 100-member capacity limit within just three days of launch. Leveraging algorithmic advantages and strong team cohesion, this AI team ranked 15th on the derivatives team trading volume leaderboard amid fierce competition.

A DeepMind Trader team member shared in the community: “Before, I followed top traders; now I follow AI. AI doesn’t get emotional—it understands ‘ironclad stop-loss’ better than humans.” This innovation not only validated AI’s commercial viability in trading but also opened up new possibilities for future human-AI collaborative trading ecosystems.

Breaking Time Barriers—“Join Anytime” Trading Period: Abandoning the traditional rigid rule of “registration closes at start,” this Team Competition allowed users to create or join teams anytime during the trading period. This design directly contributed to a participant count of 25,900 and the formation of 493 distinctively styled teams.

3x Reward Multiplier + One-Click Copy Trading—Building a Healthy “Veterans Lead Newcomers” Ecosystem: The Team Competition significantly upgraded its evaluation and incentive systems. In addition to introducing dual leaderboards—“Total Profit” and “Return Rate”—the tournament rolled out a comprehensive suite of benefits: team captains enjoyed dual rewards—“team profit dividends” plus “exclusive captain bonuses”—greatly incentivizing experienced traders to lead teams; meanwhile, members could effortlessly follow top performers via the “one-click copy trading” feature. This mechanism successfully fostered a healthy trading ecosystem where veterans guide newcomers and stronger players uplift weaker ones.

Leaderboard Battles: Moments of Comebacks, Last-Minute Wins, and Legendary Ascension

The Points Competition—a mass-participation opener—kicked off Season Two with strong momentum. Huobi HTX generously awarded physical gold worth $400,000, offering genuinely inclusive welfare that ignited market-wide trading enthusiasm.

The subsequent Individual Challenge elevated the competitive intensity to fever pitch: nearly 30,000 hardcore traders competed head-to-head, collectively generating over $4.6 billion USDT in trading volume. Ultimately, the top-tier trader who dominated both spot and derivatives trading volume leaderboards walked away with a staggering $35,000 USDT reward.

Over several weeks, the Team Competition produced numerous celebrated “dark horses” and “legendary moves” across both spot and derivatives arenas.

In the Spot Team Competition, “regional coordination” and “strategy-first execution” defined the dominant themes. Team formation热度 concentrated among CIS and Chinese-speaking regions, naturally forming regional team blocs. During the final sprint, the leaderboard underwent multiple reshuffles, with several dark horse teams surging into the TOP rankings at the last minute.

Among them, the “Trading Lighthouse” team—founded by loyal fans of Sun Yuchen—secured the top spot on the spot trading volume leaderboard thanks to its exceptional execution of “core leaders setting the pace + team-wide synchronized follow-through,” achieving over $100 million USDT in spot trading volume. The “No Profit, No Logout” team surged mid-competition, executing several precise swing trades to stage a dramatic comeback and claim the top position on the profit leaderboard. Meanwhile, the nimble, small-scale team “Buy Randomly, Win Anyway” clinched the dark horse title with an astonishing +1,092% return rate.

Competition in the Derivatives arena reached white-hot intensity, with the leaderboard undergoing multiple extreme reversals in the final 48 hours.

Trading Volume Leaderboard: The “Clever Ichiro” team locked first place decisively, guided by their captain’s patient “trend-following” philosophy and “effortless governance” approach—avoiding frequent, costly adjustments. Meanwhile, the battle for second place between “100x Squad” and “Golden Bull” was fiercely contested: the two teams swapped positions five times over the final three days, with “100x Squad” ultimately edging ahead by less than $8 million USDT.

Total Profit Leaderboard: The race for first place on the total profit leaderboard saw sustained rivalry between “All-in Retirement Home” and “FOMO Brigade” throughout the entire tournament. Ultimately, “All-in Retirement Home” secured victory through its captain’s precisely timed dual-position entries around macroeconomic data releases—emerging triumphant from the “meat-grinder”-level competition.

Return Rate Leaderboard: Grassroots legend “Red Horse Brother” delivered the most astonishing miracle of the tournament. Leveraging razor-sharp intuition for extreme volatility in low-cap tokens—and acting with decisive speed—he achieved a single-day return exceeding 2,000%, culminating in a legendary +6,261.00% overall return rate.

From Competition to Ecosystem: Huobi HTX’s Long-Term Vision

Since its debut, the Huobi HTX Summit Tournament has become one of the platform’s signature events.

From Season One’s $14 billion USDT trading volume and $100,000 prize pool, to Season Two’s $17.5 billion USDT trading volume and $1.5 million prize pool; from the stunning debut of AI team captains, to iterative upgrades of the one-click copy trading function and multi-dimensional competitive formats—Huobi HTX’s exponential growth underscores its deep expertise in product innovation and user engagement. Whether you’re a steady spot investor or a bold derivatives trader, everyone can find their niche in this “trade-and-earn” carnival.

Looking ahead, Huobi HTX will continue optimizing its tournament mechanisms, building more high-quality trading competition platforms for global users—and empowering every participant to become both a co-creator and beneficiary of the crypto ecosystem.

About Huobi HTX

Huobi HTX was founded in 2013. Over 12 years of evolution, it has grown from a cryptocurrency exchange into a comprehensive blockchain business ecosystem encompassing digital asset trading, financial derivatives, research, investment, incubation, and more.

As a globally leading Web3 gateway, Huobi HTX pursues a strategic vision centered on global expansion, ecosystem prosperity, wealth generation, and security & compliance—delivering comprehensive, secure, and reliable value and services to cryptocurrency enthusiasts worldwide.

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