I've never used this exchange before but they have 24.3k followers on twitter and 2 billion in reported volume today so it's not insignificant at all. Any news that is positive/neutral is good for exposure to the platform.
It would be great to see a surge of users to the sites and people deciding to onboard applications of various sorts after this additional hype is over. If anyone needs extra accounts to give to someone I can create 14 for free no problem.
https://coinmarketcap.com/exchanges/hotbit/
they did 571 million volume today in total per coinmarketcap so that's nice.