In the future, the physical boundaries between traditional finance and decentralized assets will become increasingly blurred, and one-stop, cross-market diversified asset management will become a necessity of the times.
Article author and source: BIT
On the evening of March 31, ME News and BIT (formerly Matrixport) jointly hosted an in-depth AMA event on the theme of "US Stocks, Crypto and AI".
Elio, Dylan, and Jun, core members of BIT's brokerage business, joined invited guests including Ren Junfei, CEO of Pando Finance, Gary, CIO of Fosun Wealth, Dr. Bill, co-founder of Fufuture, and Jenny, Vice President of Bitstrat, to discuss cross-border asset allocation and practical defensive strategies in complex cycles from multiple perspectives, spanning traditional financial asset management and the Web3 innovation ecosystem.
This article will focus on extracting the in-depth observations shared by three experts from BIT, the organizer, who have deep experience in the business, during this AMA.
Elio (Head of Brokerage Business): Market Behavior Shift – Saying Goodbye to Long-Term One-Sided Holding, Embracing Range Trading and Defensive Strategies
Drawing on his hands-on experience building a BIT US stock business from scratch, Elio astutely pointed out the significant changes in current market sentiment and trader behavior: a shift in investment logic; the market has moved beyond one-sided frenzy, and investor confidence is becoming more sensitive. Operationally, funds are shifting entirely from long-term "directional investing" to short-term defensive "strategic trading." Users' willingness to hold long-term positions is declining, with a greater inclination towards swing trading and range trading, and a conscious effort to shift positions towards defensive assets.
The demand for cross-industry allocation combining crypto and US stocks is emerging: Elio observed that users' focus has shifted from purely crypto assets to actively seeking cross-industry allocation tools. The boundaries between the crypto market and traditional finance are blurring. BTC ETFs have brought traditional funds into the crypto, and conversely, native crypto users are actively expanding into US stocks, especially in sectors they are naturally sensitive to, such as AI. This accelerated two-way flow is the core driving force behind BIT's rapid iteration of its US stock product infrastructure.
Jun (Trading Manager): Macroeconomics and Sector Rotation – Geopolitics Reshaping Fund Flows
Jun, with backgrounds in traditional foreign banks and leading online brokerages, provides practical analysis from both macro-geographical and technical perspectives:
Inflation and Liquidity Game Amid Macroeconomic Upheavals: Recent geopolitical conflicts (such as the situation in the Middle East) have driven up energy prices, including crude oil, directly leading to a rebound in inflation expectations. Against this backdrop, cryptocurrencies are no longer independent of traditional finance, but are increasingly influenced by the resonance between global macroeconomic liquidity and risk aversion.
A clear sector rotation effect is emerging: market funds are undergoing a significant structural rotation. The momentum of the previously leading high-valuation tech giants (Magnificent 7) is weakening; meanwhile, to cope with uncertainty, funds are accelerating their inflow into energy, utilities, and defensive sectors with high cash flow.
Dylan (US Equity Business Operations): A Cross-Border Trader's Underlying Perspective—Seeking Certainty and Diversified Asset Allocation
Dylan shared two key observations based on his practical experience in both the crypto and US stock markets:
Crypto funds are spilling over into other assets. Crypto users who have experienced the full cycle are undergoing a structural change in their investment behavior—no longer just rotating within the crypto, but beginning to diversify their holdings across macro assets such as US stocks and gold. This is not a short-term phenomenon driven by market trends, but a long-term trend resulting from an upgrade in user understanding.
The bottleneck in cross-market allocation isn't willingness, but tools. Users need a platform that can simultaneously provide Nasdaq-level liquidity for US stocks and top-tier crypto asset liquidity, allowing cross-market asset allocation and arbitrage operations to be as smooth as within a single market. This is precisely the core positioning of BIT's US stock product.
Market consensus: AI value extends to the underlying layers, and Web3 enters an era of compliant institutionalization.
The attendees reached a high degree of consensus on the current "differentiation" and "game-playing" dynamics in the financial market. They also unanimously expressed optimism about the future of AI agents, believing they will fundamentally reshape digital interaction. Combined with explorations in Web3 such as the tokenization of computing power, the integration of AI and encryption technology will become an unshakable growth driver for the next 5-10 years. Although Bitcoin and Altcoin have shown divergent performance in the short term, the continued accumulation of funds by traditional financial giants has laid a solid foundation for crypto assets to serve as a global macroeconomic hedging and allocation tool.
Summary: Say goodbye to "blindly winning" and embrace the new rules of cross-industry asset allocation.
In the challenging and unpredictable year of 2026, the era of easy profits has completely ended for the US stock market, the crypto market, and the AI sector. Looking ahead, the physical boundaries between traditional finance and decentralized assets will become increasingly blurred, making one-stop, cross-market, diversified asset management a necessity. As three core business experts at BIT stated, facing a complex and volatile market environment, investors must broaden their trading horizons, adapt to macroeconomic sector rotations, be wary of leverage and concentration risks, and actively embrace cross-market and cross-cycle asset allocation to navigate the complexities of bull and bear markets and grasp the wealth secrets of the new cycle.
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[Disclaimer] This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute any investment advice or offer. The opinions expressed by the guests do not represent the official position. Financial assets carry high volatility risk, and past performance is not indicative of future results.
