Huobi US has announced today they will be shutting down on December 15th, 2019. This comes after over a year and a half of low volume trading on the exchange.
I think they shot themselves in the foot by branding as "HBUS." They weren't able to leverage their brand that way. By the time they rebranded as Huobi, the damage was done. They might have also suffered from anti-Chinese sentiment given the US-China trade situation under Trump.
I'm wondering if Bitflyer US will follow the same fate. They have also been perpetually dead since launch, with single digit volumes some days.
Yes they could be. With all the brainwashed individuals on earth already hearing all the fake bad things about them, Huobi US will suffer. So this must be one of the reason why Binance suddenly decide to get into the US market, I hope they won't end up like Huobi US. But I wonder why they give up this time after the long years of keeping up, now that the market is getting stable they just quit.