BroadChain News, April 24, 03:16, on April 23, at the 2026 Hong Kong Institutional Digital Wealth Management Summit, New Huo Technology Chief Economist Fu Peng delivered his debut speech. He pointed out that the shift of traditional financial practitioners towards crypto assets is essentially consistent with the historical logic of computer technology reshaping the financial industry—now AI and blockchain are driving a new wave of change. In the future, traditional finance and crypto assets will deeply integrate, entering the "FICC+C" era.
Fu Peng recalled that he has been focusing on the crypto market since 2022, for about four years now. As an economist with a background in traditional hedge funds, he observed that traditional capital and financial institutions are gradually placing greater importance on crypto assets. He emphasized that future asset allocation will inevitably involve adding crypto assets (C) on top of fixed income, foreign exchange, and commodities (FICC), forming a new framework.
Fu Peng compared this trend to the process in the late 1970s and early 1980s when computer technology gave rise to the FICC asset class. At that time, the proliferation of semiconductors, personal computers, and operating systems transformed financial derivatives pricing from manual calculations to efficient electronic methods, driving the formation of modern financial markets. Now, AI and blockchain, as a new leap in productivity, are reshaping all industries, including finance.
He further explained that traditional finance is not static—from shouting on trading floors and typewriter-based settlement to electronic trading, each technological iteration brings structural changes. The current rise of crypto assets is a continuation of this historical logic. Understanding this context allows one to form their own judgments about market trends and asset prices.