HTX Hot Listings Weekly Recap (Aug 4-11): DONKEY Up 197% as Meme Coin and Ethereum Ecosystem Tokens Rally

Panama City, August 18, 2025 - HTX, a leading global crypto exchange, saw several newly listed assets deliver outsized gains over the past week (Aug 4–11), accompanied by a sharp surge in trading activity. The broader cryptocurrency market experienced rapid capital rotation between meme coins, public blockchains, and emerging narratives. While some tokens registered short-term spikes fueled by specific events, mainstream assets within the ETH ecosystem maintained steady growth.

Meme Coins Lead Weekly Gains with DONKEY and MEMEFI As the Key Focus

Meme coins remained at the forefront of market sentiment. With their high volatility, low barriers to entry, and high community involvement, these tokens tend to serve as short-term sentiment gauges.

• DONKEY (BSC Memecoin): +197%, the week's highest gainer on HTX. Hailing from a meme that went viral - Binance founder CZ's self-deprecating "I am a donkey" comment - the token rode social popularity to entice a squadron of short-term inflows, gaining status as a symbol of trending BSC meme tokens.

• MEMEFI (Memecoin):  +120%. MemeFi is a Web3 social gaming community that merges PvP/PvE modes with a player economics system. Players can exchange keys to receive rewards, making the experience more engaging. Expectation of airdrops and on-chain interaction activity contributed towards maintaining price momentum.

Emerging Narratives and Niche Sectors Rise, Highlighted by SOON and OG

Innovation-driven industries gained ground, driven by advances in blockchain scalability, fan interaction, blockchain gaming, decentralized research, and AI integration. The industries capture both short-term speculators and long-term investors.

•  SOON (L1 Token): +145%. SOON is a rollup stack that is meant to offer high-performance Layer-1 chain solutions. The project garnered the interest of blockchain fans as well as speculative funds because of its speedy, low-cost on-chain performance and early ecosystem growth. It is considered a possible story along with Ethereum and Solana.

• OG (Fan Token): +124%. The spike showcases the revitalized market interest in fan economy. As the first collaboration between esports group OG and Socios.com, OG taps into the strong reach of its sports and entertainment IPs. This powers a boom of on-chain fan activity in the new cycle.

• A2Z (GameFi): +108%. Founded on OP Stack, Arena-Z is focusing on simplifying Web3 gaming through player-centric infrastructure, with record highs in trading volume and active users. The blockchain gaming industry has consistently been a market standout throughout this year's rebound.

• BIO (DeSci): +96%. Rekindling the decentralized science narrative led to a surge of interest in blockchain-driven scientific research. Although these projects show high short-term volatility, they have a unique place in the investigation of long-term worth.

• GRIFT (SOL AI Token): +97%. This captures the speculative hype around the story of AI plugged into Solana. Orbit (GRIFT) is a DeFi assistant powered by AI on the Solana blockchain, providing on-chain activity through natural language commands. With AI as a top long-term story for the crypto space in 2025 and beyond, its pairing with high-performance blockchains is especially interesting. Market discovery of the potential between AI and on-chain data continues to evolve extremely fast.

Ethereum Ecosystem Assets Steadily Advance

Price recovery in Ethereum underpinned gains in primary staking and DeFi tokens, regarded as more stable investment targets.

• LDO (Staking): +63%, enjoying a recovery in staking APRs and overall ETH staking activity. Lido is an Ethereum liquid staking solution. It enables users to stake ETH without minimum deposit, plus infrastructure upkeep, while engaging in on-chain activities (e.g., lending) in order to compound interest growth on their yields.

• PENDLE (DeFi): +45%. The price increase reflects renewed institutional interest in the interest rate derivatives sector. Pendle Finance is a protocol that tokenizes and allows trading of DeFi yields, enabling users to execute various yield management strategies.

• ENA (DeFi):   +38%. This increase represents consistent growth in the robust Ethereum ecosystem. Ethena is an Ethereum-based synthetic dollar protocol that seeks to offer a crypto-native alternative for currencies not dependent on legacy banking infrastructure. Its core offering is Delta-neutral synthetic dollars (USDe).

As August goes on, the market is alive with activity, where both veteran and upcoming sectors are providing an abundance of trading opportunities. Traders are weighing high-volatility sectors such as memecoin, AI, Layer-1, and GameFi against more defensive exposure in Ethereum-related assets. HTX is dedicated to continuously broadening its listings and market coverage to assist users in identifying opportunities in both speculative and structural growth stories within the changing crypto cycle.

About HTX

Established in 2013, HTX (previously Huobi) has developed from a virtual asset exchange to a whole ecosystem of blockchain-related businesses including digital asset trading, financial derivatives, research, investment, incubation, and other businesses.

As a world-leading gateway to Web3, HTX harbors global capabilities that enable it to provide users with safe and reliable services. Adhering to the growth strategy of "Global Expansion, Thriving Ecosystem, Wealth Effect, Security & Compliance," HTX is dedicated to providing quality services and values to virtual asset enthusiasts worldwide. 

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