2025 was a year of continuous growth and steady capability upgrades for Hotcoin.

This year, Hotcoin focused on in-depth development around global market expansion, product experience optimization, and user growth systems. By strengthening technological investment and refining operations, the platform achieved encouraging results in user scale, trading depth, and operational efficiency, laying a solid foundation for long-term sustainable development.

We sincerely thank every user for their trust and support over the past year. It is your long-term companionship and active participation that drive Hotcoin forward. Looking to the future, Hotcoin will always adhere to a user-centric development philosophy, continuously enhance security, product efficiency, and service capabilities, and strive to build a more secure, stable, efficient, and trustworthy crypto asset service platform.

—Hotcoin Team

I. Platform Annual Overview

As of the end of 2025, Hotcoin has provided crypto asset trading and related services to users in 183 countries and regions worldwide, with overall platform scale and activity maintaining steady growth.

II. Global User Growth

In 2025, Hotcoin's user growth primarily came from the continuous expansion into emerging markets and the improvement of localized service capabilities.

Through differentiated market strategies and localized operations, Hotcoin achieved stable growth in multiple regions. The platform currently supports P2P payment services in 40+ fiat currencies, with business coverage in 70+ countries and regions.

III. Trading and Liquidity Performance

In 2025, Hotcoin continued to enrich its trading categories and optimize its liquidity structure.

The growth in derivatives trading volume reflects the platform's continuous optimization in trading depth, risk control, and trading experience.

IV. Revenue Structure and Business Composition

In 2025, Hotcoin's platform revenue structure continued to optimize, with business sources showing a trend of diversification.

V. Product and Feature Innovation

In 2025, Hotcoin continued to advance product upgrades focusing on trading flexibility, user education, and interactive experience:

· New "Hotcoin Select" service: Professional team provides market analysis and research references for potential assets

· New USDC contract trading: Enriched margin choices to meet diverse trading needs

· Launched position opening fund welfare tool: Reduced user trading costs through operational benefits

· Completed comprehensive brand visual upgrade: Unified visual system, optimized overall trading experience

· Upgraded live streaming functionality: Added tipping, order sharing, and replay capabilities to enhance interactivity

· Activated Web3 wallet functionality: Supports multi-chain asset management and decentralized interaction experience

VI. Platform Stability and User Experience

Platform stability has always been a core focus of Hotcoin's development.

· Annual system availability: 99.99%

· Overall trading efficiency improvement: 15.1%

· Completed full-site UI and interaction experience upgrade

Through continuous technological investment, Hotcoin maintained stable and reliable service performance in high-concurrency trading scenarios.

VII. Security and Compliance Progress

Security System

· No major security incidents occurred in 2025

· User asset security rate reached 100%

· Introduced AI risk control system to strengthen risk identification and early warning capabilities

Compliance Progress

2025 was a pivotal year in Hotcoin's global compliance process. The platform made substantial progress in key markets such as Australia and South Korea:

· Passed the Australian AUSTRAC audit;

· Remittance license renewal successfully approved

· Digital Exchange license renewal entered the review stage

· Joined the Korean CODE-VASP Travel Rule alliance

2026 Compliance Outlook:

· Promote compliance implementation in more potential markets

· Build a unified AML and Travel Rule system

· Continuously enhance global compliance operational capabilities

Hotcoin will continue to adopt "Security, Compliance, and Trustworthiness" as its core strategy, actively embracing changes in the regulatory environment.

VIII. Brand Building and Ecosystem Cooperation

In 2025, Hotcoin completed its brand upgrade and, through content dissemination, offline events, and ecosystem collaboration, continued to expand its brand influence in the global Web3 field.

Global Brand Exposure

Participated in and hosted offline industry events: 5+

Covered global core crypto markets including Hong Kong, Russia, Dubai, such as:

· Consensus Hong Kong

· Hong Kong Web3 Festival

· Blockchain Forum Russia

· Token2049 Dubai Singapore

Content and Cooperation Results

· KOL collaborations: 300+

· Media collaborations: 100+

· Social media activities: 150+

· Total online exposure: 3.7 million+

· New followers: 300,000+

With the launch of the KOL Builders Plan, Hotcoin will provide ecosystem partners with more stable brand exposure and user growth support through a systematic creator collaboration mechanism.

Live Streaming Ecosystem and User Interaction

· Total platform hosts: 93

· Total live streams: 5,124

Live streaming has become an important interactive scenario for Hotcoin to connect content, users, and trading, continuously strengthening user stickiness and platform activity.

IX. Strategic Partnerships

· Hotcoin Labs established a $20 million special fund to support early and growth-stage projects;

· Reached cooperation with projects such as Babylon, Mantle, OLAXBT;

· Focused on collaborative exploration of AI, infrastructure, and application layer innovation, assisting projects in global development;

X. 2026 Outlook

Looking ahead to 2026, Hotcoin will build on its existing development foundation, continue to advance technological upgrades, product expansion, and global service capability building, and deepen its global layout with more稳健 (steady) steps to create long-term, sustainable value for users.

Technological Upgrades

Continue to increase investment in underlying technology and infrastructure, focusing on improving system security, stability, and performance, while simultaneously optimizing the mobile experience to create a smoother and more reliable trading environment.

Product Expansion

Introduce more high-quality digital assets and diverse derivative trading tools, improve product structure and risk management systems, and better meet the diverse needs of different users in trading, allocation, and asset management.

Global Layout

Further deepen localized construction in European, Southeast Asian, and Latin American markets, continuously enhance global service capabilities and response efficiency, and provide products and support that are closer to the needs of users in different regions.

Ecosystem Expansion

Actively explore new ecological directions such as RWA, promote in-depth collaboration with high-quality project parties and partners, expand platform boundaries, and enrich the ways and scenarios for users to participate in the crypto economy.

Acknowledgements

2025 marked Hotcoin's eighth anniversary since its establishment.

From the initial product exploration to a service network covering 180+ countries and regions, these eight years represent not just an accumulation of scale, but a process of a platform constantly making long-term choices between security, compliance, technology, and responsibility.

Global development has never been a shortcut. Hotcoin will continue to advance its globalization strategy from a long-term perspective, growing together with users and partners. We thank every user who has walked alongside Hotcoin at different stages. For every step forward in the future, Hotcoin will be with you.

—Hotcoin