No this is data for deposits and withdrawals not trading volume. Basiclly transfers to and from the Hive Engine custodial account for HBD.
There was a total of 100k deposits and withdrawals to Hive Engine in January 2022.
About the trading volume and liquidity on HBD, I have it on my to do list and I plan to get a post and data soon on that one :)
P.S. Why I think hive engine might be better for buying hbd is becouse if for example you want to buy 5k HBD at once, the slippadge on HE will be lower then on the internal market. You will need to do multiple transaction per day to get that amount without moving the intrrnal market a lot.
Ok, it'll be interesting to see the trading data then. But I suspect it's not difficult to make multiple buys quickly to avoid too much slippage on the internal market, since I think there's a lot of bots trading there (I haven't actually tried that, though).
how can one buy so many hbd on HE as you mentioned?