Crypto markets recovered during the first week of June following a broad correction in late May, with investor interest shifting toward higher-beta sectors of the market. According to HTX trading data, BTCFi, DeFi, AI, Privacy, and the BSC ecosystem memecoins were among the strongest-performing sectors during the period. Several recently listed assets on HTX posted outsized gains, with BTW and ZEST leading the week’s top performers. This demonstrates the explosive potential of high-quality early-stage assets.
BTCFi Emerges as a Market Leader, with Gainers of BTW and ZEST
BTCFi remained one of the strongest-performing themes of the week as investors continued to position around infrastructure designed to expand Bitcoin’s utility beyond simple value transfer. As the network’s foundational layers mature, BTCFi is rapidly emerging as the primary capital destination, following DeFi and Layer-2. Analysts project further upside for broader DeFi protocols entering the second half of the year, driven by resurgent on-chain volume and steady institutional capital inflows.
Notably, ZEST and BTW share an identical growth. As early-stage listings on HTX, both assets successfully completed their initial liquidity incubation phase on the platform. The subsequent trajectory on Binance Perpetual Futures acted as a major liquidity multiplier. These exponentially drive capital interest, deepening order books, and ultimately ignite the retail buying frenzy.
● BTW (Bitway): +319% over the week, as one of the market’s top performers. Bitway operates as a specialized Layer-1 blockchain engineered explicitly for Bitcoin-based applications.
● BABY (Babylon): +32% on the week. Also part of the BTCFi sector, Babylon is a decentralized protocol that enables native Bitcoin staking directly on the Bitcoin blockchain, without intermediaries. Its upward catalyst stemmed primarily from the listing of spot trading pair on Upbit, a leading South Korean exchange.
● ZEST (Zest Protocol): +87% on the week. Zest Protocol is a Bitcoin lending protocol. As the Bitcoin ecosystem continues to expand, a new ecosystem centered on improving BTC asset utilization, enhancing yields, and building financialized applications is rapidly taking shape.
● BEAT (Audiera): +210% on the week, emerging as the second-strongest asset after BTW. Audiera pioneers an agent-native participatory economic model in which humans and autonomous AI agents act as equal participants.
Chinese Memecoin Momentum Persists, While AI and Privacy Sectors Stay Active
The memecoin sector remains one of the most popular narratives of this market cycle. Unlike traditional memecoin projects, the popularity of BSC Chinese memecoin projects often stems from community consensus, Chinese internet virality, and short-term capital resonance.
● Lobster: +62% on the week. Lobster is a popular OpenClaw-concept Chinese memecoin on the BSC chain.
● Binance Life: +33%. The token originates from the “Android Life / Apple Life” meme popularized by Chinese internet KOL Hu Chenfeng, which has recently generated exceptionally high discussion within the Chinese crypto community.
● WLD (Worldcoin): +25% on the week. Worldcoin was first proposed in 2019 by OpenAI founder Sam Altman. As one of the flagship AI-concept projects, WLD continues to draw capital attention.
● ZEC (Zcash): A flagship privacy-sector project, up 15% on the week. With global discussions around on-chain privacy protection, data security, and digital identity heating up in recent weeks, privacy assets have re-entered the market spotlight. ZEC’s trading activity has notably increased of late.
Quality Assets Keep Emerging – HTX Builds a Key Gateway for Global Users to Discover Value
This week’s market performance shows capital spreading from a handful of mainstream assets toward multiple hot sectors, with BTCFi, DeFi, AI, Privacy, and the memecoin ecosystem all demonstrating strong vitality. From earlier standouts like HYPE, NIL, and FHE to this week’s explosive performances by tokens BTW and ZEST, HTX continues to showcase its strengths in quality asset discovery, project screening, and early-stage liquidity development.
Leveraging its extensive experience in new-asset screening and its global pipeline of project resources, HTX has become an important launchpad for many high-potential projects. Looking ahead, HTX will continue to leverage its platform strengths, maintaining a sharp focus on industry innovations, and consistently introducing emerging projects with strong growth potential. The platform will provide global users with a richer and more diverse range of investment choices, while uncovering the next phase of potential growth opportunities.
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