Huobi and Poloniex announce a strategic partnership

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After initially denying the possibility of a merger, Huobi and Poloniex announced a strategic partnership on November 30.

The reports of a possible merger initially emerged last week with a tweet from Wu Blockchain but were denied. The tweet read, "The Poloniex exchange, which Justin Sun acquired from Circle in 2019, will merge with his recently acquired Huobi exchange, according to sources familiar with the matter. Coingecko shows that Poloniex's daily spot trading volume is only 1/10 of Huobi's. Exclusive."

Huobi said that starting from December, the Huobi Advisory Board plans to make a monthly evaluation of all Poloniex projects and list the top-performing projects directly on Huobi, which will help them reach tens of millions of users. The exchange added that Huobi and Poloniex would 'progressively cooperate' on Huobi's HT coin ecosystem development, liquidity sharing, connectivity, and global compliance.

Huobi has gone through several changes this year, some of which were significant. In June, it launched an investment arm. Co-founder of Huobi, Leon Li, started looking to sell his shares of the company In August. In October, About Capital of Hong Kong bought a controlling share in the company. There were reports of widespread layoffs and resignations in November, but Huobi denied those reports.

Huobi also announced on the same day that it would offer spot commission of up to 50 per cent and futures commission of up to 60 per cent to influencers through its upgraded affiliates program. Reportedly, Huobi is also planning to set up its headquarters in the Dominican Republic.