When most people still regarded C2C as "the least sexy business of the exchange", Huobi Selection Station spent a year making it into the most deterministic infrastructure.

On April 7, 2026, Huobi Selection Station celebrated its first anniversary. In the past 365 days, this C2C zone, which carries a huge amount of funds in and out, has delivered an answer that has made the entire industry wonder: it is the only one to maintain a record of zero freezes, and it is the first to create a "100% full compensation" mechanism.

In the X Space anniversary live broadcast that night, Huobi HTX OTC business leader AD had an in-depth conversation with a number of industry OGs and senior users. Through the perspective of AD, we can get a glimpse of how Huobi HTX used the lowest level of business reconstruction to complete a "dimension reduction attack" on the C2C track in an impetuous industry.

Based on the content of this conversation, we sorted out 10 key moments related to Huobi Selection Station.

Moment 1: A soul torture about "whether the user can be caught"

The hands of time are set back to the Spring Festival from the end of 2022 to the beginning of 2023. At that time, Huobi HTX had just restarted its C2C business for a few months, and industry partners spent sky-high budgets to launch a massive C2C campaign.

“At that time, I solemnly asked the team: If we also organize such a huge event, can the team’s ability and the merchant’s carrying capacity be able to handle it?” AD recalled. The conference room fell into silence at that time because everything was still a blank space.

On that day, AD set a goal for the team: within three years at most, Huobi HTX would launch the most influential campaign in the industry. This moment set the tone for Huobi’s OTC business not to blindly follow trends but to have unique underlying product capabilities.

Moment 2: Turning "Return to the Big Three" from a slogan into a strict standard

“You often hear Huobi HTX Global Advisor Sun Yuchen talk about returning to the top three. In our view, this is not a slogan, but a matter that is particularly serious and deserves to be taken seriously.”

In order to meet this goal, Huobi Selection Station established extremely strict entry thresholds when it started planning at the end of 2024. AD revealed that Huobi HTX has established a complex screening model by accumulating massive transaction data and dozens of offline merchant activities every year. There is only one core bottom line for joining the selection station: the record since joining Huobi HTX must be 0 frozen. Transaction capabilities, service capabilities, and contract fulfillment rates are just basic standards.

Moment 3: Use "labeling" to eliminate trust friction in transactions

It is difficult for ordinary users to perceive the risk control logic behind it, but they can intuitively feel the temperature of the product.

At the selection station, each merchant has a highly scenario-based advertising label, such as "Strict price control, worry-free first choice", "Night express", "Small amount express" and "New customer friendly".

AD gave an example: "Users who have liquidated their positions at two or three o'clock in the middle of the night and urgently need to replenish their positions, look for the 'Night Express'; those who suddenly made a fortune and want to withdraw money quickly, look for the corresponding tags. These tags directly hit the different pain points of users, greatly reducing the cost of communication and understanding."

Moment 4: The industry’s only “7*24 hours internal manual minute-level intervention”

In terms of risk control, Huobi Selection Station firmly believes that "risk control beforehand is far greater than resolution afterward."

Based on model training of historical risk terms, the system covers thousands of keywords related to abnormal transactions. What is even more subversive is that in the entire industry, only Huobi HTX has the 7*24-hour human service team within OTC to intervene immediately. After an exception is triggered, instead of waiting for an hour to respond, the platform directly intervenes within a few minutes to provide real-time escort for the transaction.

Moment 5: The birth of “100% full compensation”

In July last year, the selection station achieved an excellent "zero freezing" result, but many outside the circle or non-professional users still have doubts. After all, the "pre-emptive guarantee" is invisible and intangible.

The topic before the Huobi HTX OTC team is: "How to use a strategy that is easier for everyone to understand to make users completely worry-free." The team took a detailed inventory of the data and finally made a bold decision: since we can do this through systematic evaluation, we will use the most straightforward way to give users reassurance.

In August 2025, Huobi HTX’s “100% full compensation” mechanism was officially launched. This is not just a slap in the face decision, it is based on the confident feedback from long-term zero-freezing merchants and Huobi HTX’s confidence to nip risks in the cradle.

Moment 6: Force the industry to "roll security" and end bad money driving out good money

"In the past, when withdrawing funds, the platform only matched them, and the risk was all on the users; Huobi HTX dares to claim compensation, which proves that it has interests tied to users." KOL "I am your Grandpa Niu" said it clearly in the live broadcast.

The introduction of this mechanism has directly subverted the gameplay of the C2C industry. Exchanges such as Binance and OKX have successively followed up with freezing compensation mechanisms. In the past, everyone was focused on price, but now Huobi HTX is forcing them to "focus on risk control and security." Those illegal businesses and money laundering merchants who tried to sneak into the platform were hit by dimensionality reduction. Huobi HTX has single-handedly raised the bottom line and standards of the C2C industry by one dimension.

Moment 7: Restraint and persistence, resist the temptation of funds

During the live broadcast, senior OTC merchant "Fu Lu Shou" lamented that as an individual merchant who has maintained zero freezes for ten years, he knows how difficult it is to resist the "temptation of funds", but Huobi HTX can actually allow merchants in an ecosystem to do it together.

AD responds to the essence of this "miracle": two-way cultivation and extreme restraint. "Clean funds can ensure a pure environment. We have many non-selected merchants who want to spend money to buy traffic, but we have rejected them all. We have not become distracted just because we have made phenomenal products, and we still adhere to the values of sincerity, simplicity, and practicality."

Moment 8: The transformation of experience from "audition market" to "boutique buyer store"

For users, the emergence of the selection station has changed their trading habits.

“In the past, finding a merchant was like visiting a wholesale market, and you had to guard against scams; now it’s like walking into a professional buyer’s store, and the platform has already done the filtering for you from audition to selection.” KOL “I am your Grandpa Niu” shared.

Because it is transparent, professional and has a bottom line, Huobi Selection Station makes transactions simple and makes users' mentality more stable.

Moment 9: Redefining deposits and withdrawals as "core infrastructure of the industry"

“Deposits and withdrawals are not a profit-making tool, but the core infrastructure that determines whether users can enter the market safely and leave the market smoothly.” KOL Mr. Qin mentioned in his sharing.

Huobi HTX has transformed deposits and withdrawals from a "fearful" thing to a "smooth" thing through two-way zero handling fees, carefully selected merchants, and full compensation. As Fu Lushou said, users can withdraw money with peace of mind, which will also help stabilize the future development of Huobi HTX.

Moment 10: Q2 2026, the next “ultimate move” that cannot be copied

While the industry is still working hard to follow up on the compensation mechanism, Huobi’s OTC business has moved further into the deep water zone.

AD revealed its major layout for 2026 at the end of the live broadcast: in addition to occupying a very high market share in CIS, Malaysia, Thailand and other places, Huobi HTX’s high-interest and 0-fee USDD flash exchange business is continuing to explode. More importantly, Huobi HTX officially landed in Australia this year and obtained a compliant legal currency license to provide services for Australian currency and other legal currency users and institutional customers.

As for the Chinese-speaking area, AD left a huge suspense: "In the second quarter of this year, we will launch a big move that is no less than a selection station. This is a brand-new action that creates an industry. We have been evaluating it for a long time. This time, it may be very difficult for industry partners to follow up."

Write at the end

In the crypto cycle full of games, the most powerful skill is often not to double the book assets, but to secure the assets.

The 0-freeze miracle of Huobi Selection Station this year is a reverence for users’ pain points and awe for the crypto market. As "Grandpa Niu" said: "Everyone goes to the market to charge forward. Looking back, Huobi Selection Station is your most stable harbor."

For Huobi HTX, this is not only a victory for C2C products, but also a successful practice in rebuilding the trust order of Web3. What exactly is the “big move” for Q2 in 2026? The entire industry is waiting to see.

About Huobi HTX

Huobi HTX was established in 2013. After 12 years of development, it has evolved from a cryptocurrency exchange into a comprehensive blockchain business ecosystem, covering digital asset trading, financial derivatives, research, investment, incubation and other businesses.

As the world's leading Web3 portal, Huobi HTX adheres to the development strategy of global expansion, ecological prosperity, wealth effect, and security compliance, and provides comprehensive, safe, and reliable value and services to virtual currency enthusiasts around the world.