This year, when the sister show started, that off-key performance where the lyrics were forgotten but still went all out on stage made the entire internet laugh hysterically. A netizen's comment, "No lip-syncing, no stage fright, no pretentiousness, not good at singing," became a trending meme, with everyone mocking and liking it. In the end, we are fed up with overly packaged false perfection, tired of the self-deceiving lip-syncing. Compared to seemingly flawless illusions, everyone prefers genuine, solid things.

This sense of irony, when applied to the current AI trading circle, is simply identical.

The entertainment industry relies on sound editing and lip-syncing to create stage myths, while the AI trading circle relies on piling up concepts, hyping trends, and fabricating wealth myths. Open this circle, and the screen is filled with LLM, Agent, quantitative strategies, and financial freedom. Everyone boasts that they can easily grasp the market with AI, and everyone exaggerates their model capabilities as if just by keeping up with the projects, they can effortlessly double their profits, portraying the cold trading market as a utopia filled with gold.

However, after the excitement, there are only illusions that cannot withstand scrutiny.

Countless projects have tried desperately to lower the threshold for strategy generation, turning AI strategy creation into a zero-threshold operation, leading countless people to believe that with AI-generated trading plans, they can dominate the market. Yet no one is willing to reveal the cruelest truth: generating ten thousand beautiful strategies does not mean surviving a single day in the real market.

The biggest deception in this industry is that everyone is clustered together studying 'how to make AI produce strategies', while collectively avoiding the core of trading. It's not about generation, but about execution and control; it's not about talking big, but about controllable and tangible results.

Just like it's useless for singers to only write songs, they must be able to perform live, keep the rhythm, and avoid mistakes; AI trading that only generates strategies is just empty talk, it must be able to control risks, stabilize execution, and safeguard the bottom line of funds. Strategies without constraints are like castles in the air, and AI Agents without control are like wild horses that run amok; once thrown into the real trading market, they will only charge wildly, ultimately devouring both principal and confidence.

This is also why, after being absent for so long in the industry, no one is willing to settle down to do one thing: to build the Harness Layer for AI trading, the reins engineering layer.

Many people do not understand this professional concept, but in trading, it is actually quite simple: the AI model is responsible for running forward and generating trading strategies, which is the core of creating momentum; while the Harness is the reins that hold this wild horse, a complete control system that constrains behavior, controls risks, validates strategies, implements them, and continuously optimizes. It determines whether AI strategies can be implemented in real trading, whether they can maintain a bottom line in a volatile market, and whether they can operate stably over time, rather than just being a flash in the pan.

The upper limit of AI trading may depend on how strong the model is; but whether it can survive, whether it can last, the lower limit will always depend on how solid the Harness is.

What VergeX does is the most clumsy, hardcore, and indispensable thing in this industry.

It does not follow the trend of hyping AI trading tools, does not paint a picture of getting rich overnight, and does not engage in deceptive marketing, but instead jumps out of the impetuous concept involution, roots itself in the underlying infrastructure, and builds a dedicated infrastructure layer for AI Trading, becoming an execution and control expert for AI Agents. It does not play with illusions, it does not engage in hype, it only addresses the industry's most core pain points: transforming human trading intentions into AI strategies and steadily delivering them into the real market, achieving a complete loop from strategy generation to safe execution.

Only from @Tintinx2021 can one truly feel that the confidence of @vergex_ai comes not from hype.

The predecessor was the open-source AI trading system NoFx, holding 11k+ GitHub Stars, which has long validated the feasibility of the multi-Agent trading paradigm in the global developer community, accumulating solid technical reputation and community foundation; backed by Vertex under the Temasek system, it has no exaggerated capital hype, only solid resource endorsements, even CZ has mentioned this industry recognition multiple times in his new book; what’s more, it does not deceive itself with simulated trading, but has already landed in real trading, with real users running AI Agents in the market, speaking with practical results rather than vague concepts.

This collaboration with Z.ai to launch the GLM5 Trading Odyssey precisely hits the industry's transformation node: the AI industry has long passed the stage of competing on model parameters and generation capabilities, officially shifting from 'model capability competition' to 'Agent execution capability competition'.

The core value of GLM5 is not simply about performance crushing, but adapting to the Agent-first paradigm, supporting stable execution of long-term tasks, multi-step operations, and cross-tool collaboration. Within VergeX's Harness system, it thoroughly realizes the full process loop from strategy generation, validation, control to implementation, truly allowing AI trading to say goodbye to empty talk and step into real trading scenarios.

In this era, what we lack the least are new concepts, and what is most rampant are myths of getting rich overnight.

Too many people are thinking of shortcuts, relying on piling up buzzwords, packaging stories, and creating illusions to harvest traffic, disdainful of refining underlying logic, unwilling to tackle details head-on, treating 'deep cultivation' as a joke and 'pragmatism' as outdated. Just like those stages in the entertainment industry where the entire performance is lip-synced, seemingly perfect, but breaks with a poke; projects in the AI trading circle that only talk about generation and not control seem to be booming, but once implemented in real trading, their true form is instantly revealed.

There will always be a day when the bubble bursts, and there will always be a moment when the wind stops.

The hype built on speculation ultimately cannot stand firm; the prosperity supported by illusions will eventually fade. Only by settling down, tackling the core pain points of the industry, refining the underlying infrastructure that others disdain to work on, and safeguarding the bottom line of reality, controllability, and implementation can one stand firm amidst cyclical changes.

We should have long since said goodbye to the impetuous concept hype, to the grandiose myths of wealth, and returned to the most essential logic of trading: stability is greater than aggression, controllability is greater than blindness, and implementation is greater than empty dreams.

VergeX has never been a speculator chasing trends, but a practitioner in the industry. It does not create wild horses that run amok, but rather the reins that stabilize the situation; it does not create false trading myths, but builds trading infrastructure that is viable, controllable, and safe.

Just as we appreciate the sincerity of 'Sisters Who Make Waves' in their full performance, we should also acknowledge this hardcore dedication to details, rooted in practical combat, and rejection of illusions in the AI trading circle. After all, the market never believes in hype, only in strength; it never accepts illusions, only recognizes reality.

Do not let superficial concepts blind your eyes, do not indulge in unrealistic dreams of sudden wealth. The projects that can truly cross cycles are never the ones that shout the loudest or have the most glamorous packaging, but those that delve deeply, address core pain points to perfection, turn 'uncontrollable' into 'controllable', and speak with practical results and long-termism based on strength.

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