HTX: Expands TradFi Perps to 170 Assets

HTX posted 100x growth in TradFi perpetuals volume this year, hitting $1 billion monthly turnover by May and expanding coverage to roughly 170 assets including US equities, ETFs and Pre-IPO contracts by July, according to a post from @justinsuntron on August 15, 2026. The exchange introduced negative-fee trading contests and 1-10x USDT-margined products across commodities, semiconductor names and indices, aiming to capture long-tail flow that Binance currently dominates. Early 2025 volumes were negligible; 2026 single-month figures now exceed 100 billion, turning the segment from experiment into core CEX battleground.