At the end of 2025, the high-end closed-door meeting 'AI Financial Era,' co-hosted by Amber Group and OLAXBT, successfully concluded at the CAI Building.
Article Author, Source: ME News
When artificial intelligence meets financial capital at Electric Road No. 58, the CAI Building becomes a lookout tower for insights into the future. A deep dialogue on the 'AI Financial Era' unfolds here. On December 17, the closed-door meeting '2026 Frontier Insights: New Landscape of Asset Management in the AI Financial Era,' co-hosted by Amber Group and OLAXBT, and jointly organized by Longling Investment, Mindfulness Capital, and ME Group, successfully concluded. Industry leaders and elites from digital finance, quantitative investment, and artificial intelligence gathered together. As 2025 draws to a close, this gathering is not just an annual industry review but a forward-looking rehearsal for the new blueprint for asset management in 2026.
Paradigm Shift: From Algorithm Assistance to Machine Native
At the beginning of the event, the opening speech by Thomas Zhu, co-founder and CTO of Amber Group, set the tone for the entire event, pointing out that we are at a critical juncture where AI technology is redefining the financial industry.
Subsequently, Jason Chan, founder and CEO of OLAXBT, delivered an in-depth speech titled (AI Agent on Chain: The 2026 Machine Native Finance Seen by OLA XBT). He clearly depicted the generational evolution path from 'human-centered finance' to 'algorithm-assisted finance,' ultimately advancing to 'machine-native finance.' He emphasized that 2026 will be a watershed year, at which point AI Agents will no longer be tools but will become 'first-class economic citizens' with independent economic identities, capable of making autonomous decisions and participating in market pricing. In the face of the current industry's platform fragmentation and the 'island dilemma' where capital cannot be efficiently allocated, Jason Chan proposed the core argument: blockchain is the only trusted settlement layer and identity foundation for building this future. It not only ensures the immutability of transactions and reputation, but more importantly, provides a system resilience that is resistant to censorship and has no single point of failure. To this end, OLAXBT's solution is to build a three-layer 'coordination layer' ecosystem: based on on-chain machine identity, incentivized through a unified token economy, and integrating decentralized computing power with defensive AI, aiming to establish an open, trustworthy, and efficient infrastructure for the era of machine-native finance.
Strategy Evolution: New Logic of Asset Management Under Human-Machine Collaboration
Following the macro vision, the dialogue turned to more pragmatic strategies and landing aspects. Thomas Ao, founding partner of Mindfulness Capital, conducted an in-depth sharing on (Quant Strategy Allocation). He innovatively proposed to view the volatile crypto market as an 'expression system' analytical framework. Within this framework, his team developed a 'layered market expression model,' encoding continuous price data into a 'macro state' that describes overall trends and a 'micro state' that captures local noise, which is then layered and reconstructed through generative AI. The purpose of this approach is to penetrate market noise, achieve a more stable and interpretable expression of intrinsic structures, thus providing human decision-makers with a clearer strategy configuration map and risk awareness in an AI-dominated environment, achieving true human-machine collaboration and wisdom complementarity.
Immediately following, Patricia Miao, Investment Manager at Amber Group Web3 Accelerator, started from frontline investment observations and systematically elaborated on the panoramic view of AI Agents empowering asset management. She detailed the disruptive opportunities brought by AI in real-time research and investment, dynamic risk control, and cross-market execution, while also candidly pointing out the three core challenges currently faced: the trust issues caused by 'black box' decision-making, new security threats arising from AI's own capabilities, and the lack of key feedback from strategy to execution. She emphasized that future development paths depend on building a solid technological foundation, including programmable permission management based on smart contracts, standardized model context protocols, and on-chain verifiable risk barriers. These elements together form a crucial bridge for transforming cutting-edge technology into institution-level trusted applications.
Peak Dialogue: Unlocking the Smart Code of Future Finance
The peak of the event's thinking arrived as scheduled during the roundtable dialogue session. Under the guidance of Jessica, CEO of ME Group, Junfei Ren, founder of Pando Group, Gary Yang, incubation investor at CICADA Finance, Emma Zhu, partner at New Fire Asset Management, and Royce Chow, Chief Growth Officer of OLAXBT took the stage together to engage in deep exchanges around the grand topic of (Unlocking the Future: How AI and Crypto Shape the New Financial Intelligence Era).
Five guests broke through the limitations of a single perspective, from incubation, asset management to growth operations, conducting a panoramic disassembly of the commercial landing paradigm of 'AI + Crypto.' The dialogue pointed out that the market is welcoming a dual leap in liquidity management efficiency and risk control precision. From resource integration at the source to ecological construction at the terminal, AI Agents are irreversibly reconstructing the value of every link in the financial industry chain.
Conclusion:
This closed-door meeting discussed macro generational evolution, landing on specific strategy configuration and compliance discussions, outlining a clear picture of the industry's development in 2026. Although the era of AI Agents has arrived, truly breaking the 'data islands' between multi-agent platforms and building a unified coordination layer still requires deep collaboration among capital, technology, and industry. Tonight's dialogue is just a beginning, and we have reason to believe that, driven by Amber Group, OLaXBT, and all partners, the coming year will be a key year for smart finance to transition from 'single-point breakthroughs' to 'ecosystem integration.'