Entering 2026, the crypto market continued its volatile pattern amidst a complex interplay of macroeconomic conditions and market sentiment recovery. While overall market gains were relatively moderate, several assets on Huobi HTX saw weekly increases over the past week (January 5th-11th), with the BSC Chinese Meme project "Binance Life" and the privacy-focused project ZKP performing particularly well. Huobi HTX, leveraging its keen market insight and early-mover advantage with a strong narrative, once again demonstrated exceptional explosive power during the "race period" for asset launches.
DeFi and privacy lead the rally: FXS rebounds strongly, ZKP leads the narrative upgrade.
This week, the privacy sector and DeFi infrastructure performed the best. ZKP and XMR in the privacy sector both strengthened, with their narratives continuing to grow, making them one of the few sectors to achieve a clear upward trend this week.
FXS (Frax Finance) : Topped the gainers list with a weekly increase of 110%. Frax Finance is a DeFi protocol that offers three stablecoins and staking derivatives (FRAX, FPI, frxETH) for earning yield, providing liquidity, and staking in DeFi.
ZKP (zkPass) : Weekly increase of 90%. As a leading project in the privacy computing field, ZKP uses zero-knowledge proof technology to solve the Web3 authentication problem. Huobi HTX's early investment in and launch of ZKP allowed platform users to fully capture the inflection point dividend of the privacy field from its slump to its explosive growth.
XMR (Monero) : Weekly gain of 36%. As a long-established privacy asset, XMR's steady rise once again confirms the market's renewed focus on the timeless theme of "financial privacy." Funds are gradually spreading from "single-point speculation" to "track-wide resonance," and the phased value of privacy assets is being repriced.
BSC Chinese Meme: Binance Life Leads the Way, Early Layout Advantages Stand Out
In the Meme section, the focus this week is undoubtedly Binance Life. With the resurgence of interest in the BSC ecosystem and the continued growth of Chinese Meme narratives, funds are beginning to prioritize investments with early recognition advantages and a strong community foundation.
It's worth noting that Binance Life, as one of the early BSC ecosystem projects launched and heavily supported by Huobi HTX, saw Huobi HTX keenly identify its traffic potential early on and provide liquidity support immediately. This strategy of launching before the market experienced widespread FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) proved effective, not only building a positive reputation for the platform but also allowing early investors to reap significant profits from the current wave of BSC's Chinese narrative.
Binance Life : Weekly gain of 63%. Unlike previous memes that simply relied on animal imagery, Binance Life embodies a deep "Chinese community culture." This asset originated from the community's resonance with the crypto lifestyle and possesses extremely high cohesion within the BSC ecosystem.
Following the popularity of "Binance Life", Huobi HTX has launched the first BSC chain popular Chinese meme projects " I'm Here ", " Life K Line " and " Laozi ", and simultaneously added isolated margin margin trading for "I'm Here"/USDT (10X) and "Laozi"/USDT (10X) to fully support Chinese memes in the BSC ecosystem.
At the same time, a large-scale " Chinese Asset Series Activities " has been launched to give back to the community users. From now until January 19, participants who trade the above-mentioned Chinese assets or invite friends can share a generous reward pool of up to $200,000. Newcomers can also enter a lucky draw for a prize of up to 888 USDT.
Furthermore, B (BUILDon), also in the BSC Meme sector, saw a weekly increase of 28%, further confirming the structural opportunities within the sector; the Solana ecosystem meme remained active, with CHILLGUY (Just a chill guy) experiencing a weekly increase of 33%. The robust performance of these assets provides Huobi HTX users with diversified investment portfolio options.
AI Sector: Narrative Continues, Funding Preferences Become More Rational
The AI sector remains the dominant theme throughout 2026. AI-related assets continued their volatile recovery trend this week. Overall, speculative sentiment in the AI sector has cooled significantly, with funds increasingly favoring projects with practical applications or clear long-term positioning.
ARC (AI Rig Complex) : With a weekly increase of 42%, it is a new species in the Solana ecosystem that combines "AI + MEME," gaining attention due to its cross-narrative structure. ARC is a fundamental artificial intelligence infrastructure written in RIG, which is an LLM framework for building AI agents based on the Rust language.
AIC (AI Companions) : Weekly increase of 53%. AI Companions positions itself as a leading platform integrating artificial intelligence, VR/AR, and blockchain technologies, aiming to create personalized digital companions and provide users with virtual companionship experiences.
RENDER (Render Token) : Weekly increase of 23%. As a relatively mature AI infrastructure project, its performance has been relatively stable. Render is a distributed GPU rendering network built on the Ethereum blockchain.
The advantage of being an early entrant is the advantage of returns: assets listed early on Huobi HTX are becoming a source of "certainty" in a volatile market.
Overall, the market did not experience a broad-based rally in the second week of January, but structural opportunities remained clear. Whether it was ZKP's early positioning before the privacy sector took off, or Binance Life's decisive launch during the initial surge of the BSC Chinese community, Huobi HTX transformed its platform advantages into profit opportunities for users through a "first-mover" narrative. In the crypto market, narratives can be imitated, but the time cost advantage of being a first launch/early release cannot be replicated.
Huobi HTX will continue to leverage its forward-looking assessments of trends across multiple sectors to identify and support new assets with long-term potential, providing users with richer and more growth-oriented trading options. In the current evolving market landscape, the value of early positioning is being repeatedly validated by the market.
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