Huobi HTX Contract Head's Comprehensive Analysis: What Huobi Contracts Did Right in 2025 and Where They Will Go Next

In the increasingly competitive landscape of contract trading in 2025, Huobi HTX has achieved a doubling of its user base thanks to robust risk control and continuous product iteration. As we approach 2026, how will Huobi Futures position itself? What insights does the recently highly anticipated "Copy Trading 4.0" hold?

In the fifth edition of Huobi Executive Face-to-Face, YOYO, the head of Huobi HTX's contract business, faced users for the first time with a systematic perspective, thoroughly dissecting the key developments of Huobi HTX contracts over the past year and clearly outlining the business blueprint for 2026.

Copy Trading 4.0: A Systematic Product Reconstruction

Copy Trading 4.0, a product refined over three years (launched in 2023, iterated in 2024, and set to explode in December 2025), is seen as a benchmark for the humanized transformation of Huobi HTX's contract business.

YOYO summarized this upgrade with three keywords: more humanized, more transparent, and more secure.

In terms of product structure, the copy trading system has achieved deep integration with the contract trading page for the first time, realizing "one development, dual-end coverage." This means that all new contract features can be seamlessly synchronized to the copy trading system in the future, significantly improving product evolution efficiency.

In user experience, Copy Trading 4.0 introduces an intelligent copy trading mode. Users can complete relatively reasonable follow-up operations without complex parameter configurations, greatly lowering the entry barrier for newcomers. Additionally, it supports users in freely switching between the roles of follower and leader.

In risk control logic, when users follow different traders, independent capital pools are used to avoid position mixing; it also allows copy trading users to fully replicate the trader's leverage settings, achieving risk synchronization. Furthermore, the order logic has shifted to position logic, making information clearer and more concise.

In YOYO's view, Copy Trading 4.0 is a crucial leap forward, but not the endpoint. In the future, Huobi HTX will continue to evolve around the copy trading ecosystem, strengthening the introduction of quality traders and AI strategy capabilities while continuously enhancing the risk control system, pushing copy trading towards a safer, smarter, and long-term usable direction.

Annual Review: What Did Huobi HTX Contracts Get Right in 2025?

Looking back at the past year, YOYO described the state of Huobi HTX's contract business as "accumulative development." She revealed that in 2025, the user base of Huobi HTX contracts achieved a growth of 2-3 times.

In YOYO's opinion, this growth did not come from short-term market dividends but is a natural result of users' long-term trust in the platform, underpinned by Huobi HTX's two core advantages built over the years—brand foundation and service capability. These capabilities are continuously transforming into sustainable core competitiveness for the contract business.

●Safety and Risk Control: The Underpinning of Long-Term Trust

First, let's point to the risk control and safety system. For contract trading users, safety has always been the most critical decision factor.

YOYO pointed out that Huobi HTX has continuously accumulated and improved its risk control system over the past 12 years, forming a complete defense line covering user fund isolation, system stability, and extreme market risk response. Whether it was the recent 10·11 industry volatility or multiple severe market shocks at the beginning and middle of the year, there were no significant systemic risk events on the Huobi HTX contract side. This performance of remaining stable under multiple real pressure tests has become an important foundation for the long-term accumulation of user trust.

●Liquidity Building: Key Progress in Contract Business

Regarding liquidity, YOYO revealed that since April of this year, Huobi HTX has significantly improved liquidity depth for mainstream and some sub-mainstream coins, with the overall level nearly doubling, making it one of the important advancements in contract business in 2025.

She also admitted that there is still room for improvement in liquidity for some long-tail and hot assets. In the future, the team will continue to promote overall asset liquidity optimization through more diversified solutions while solidifying the foundation of K2 and sub-mainstream assets. This capability will also be built by Huobi HTX as one of the core and long-term competitive barriers of the contract business.

●Trading Speed and System Capability: Targeting High-Frequency and Quantitative Users

For high-frequency and quantitative trading users, trading speed and system capability are particularly crucial. YOYO introduced that in May 2025, Huobi HTX launched a joint margin system, which not only supports cross-coin hedging strategies for BTC, ETH, but also increased API trading speed by nearly 4 times.

Currently, a significant portion of high-frequency quantitative trading has migrated to this system. Meanwhile, the underlying matching system is continuously being optimized, with a new matching engine expected to launch in the first quarter of 2026, further enhancing the smoothness and stability of contract trading.

●Financial Product Matrix: Enhancing Fund Efficiency and User Retention

While continuously strengthening basic trading capabilities, the gradual formation of Huobi HTX's financial product matrix has become an important supplement to promote long-term user retention.

Since the launch of Yubi Treasure in December 2024, Huobi HTX has focused on improving fund utilization efficiency. Yubi Treasure is designed with "low threshold, deposit and withdraw at any time" as its core, allowing users to earn annualized returns as long as funds are deposited in the primary account. YOYO revealed that Yubi Treasure will undergo a new round of iteration in 2026, with the potential to achieve 2-3 times enhancement in annualized return capability while maintaining the same usage threshold.

At the same time, Huobi HTX is also continuously upgrading the grid trading and copy trading systems. The grid system upgrade was completed in 2025, and Copy Trading 4.0 was launched at the end of the year.

In 2026, the team will further increase investment in AI strategy trading tools, including the integration of AI trading assistants and strategy capabilities, aiming to open verified mature strategies to users in a lower-threshold manner, helping them achieve long-term, sustainable revenue growth.

YOYO stated that throughout the growth of the business, the Huobi HTX contract team has always insisted on facing users directly, listening to their genuine voices through various channels, and using this as the core driving force for product optimization and iteration. This positive interaction has not only won increasingly deep user trust but has also become a solid foundation for business development. Meanwhile, the entire team has always maintained a sincere and earnest attitude in serving every user, coupled with the group's strong resource tilt towards the contract business, making it evident that the team's response speed from "receiving user feedback" to "completing product iteration" is becoming faster and faster.

Next Phase of Capability Building in Contract Trading

Looking towards 2026, the strategic direction of Huobi HTX contracts remains clear and focused—continuously solidifying the underlying capabilities of the contract business around product refinement, liquidity structure optimization, user fund utilization efficiency enhancement, and deepening the risk control system. On this basis, a particularly important change is being put on the agenda: exploring the return of more proactive risk control rights to users.

In YOYO's view, the platform's responsibility is not only to provide users with a robust system and safety net but also to offer sufficiently mature, clear, and operable risk management tools through product and mechanism design, allowing users to actively participate in managing their own trading risks while fully understanding the risks involved. This also means that, on top of the existing system safety and risk control framework, HTX contracts will help users establish a more transparent and controllable risk management path, making risk control no longer a passive result but a part of trading decisions.

Clearly, Huobi HTX's layout is not limited to scale expansion but further points towards more mature trading infrastructure and clearer risk management paradigms.

From systematic product reconstruction to risk control concept upgrades, Huobi HTX contracts are attempting to answer a more long-term question: how to enable more users to participate in contract trading in a more controllable and rational manner amidst the highly volatile cryptocurrency market, and achieve long-term value—this may very well be the true essence of its next phase of competitiveness.

About Huobi HTX

Founded in 2013, Huobi HTX has evolved over 12 years from a cryptocurrency exchange into a comprehensive blockchain business ecosystem encompassing digital asset trading, financial derivatives, research, investment, incubation, and other businesses.

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