As a quant analyst raised in Brooklyn, I watched Hong Kong’s broker stocks—弘业期货, �泰君安国际, 胜利证券—collapse under algorithmic pressure. This wasn’t just market noise; it was a systemic tremor in DeFi’s illusion of rationality. I rewrote my models at 3 a.m., questioning whether AI-driven sentiment can truly reflect human fear—or if it’s just echoing chaos. Here, data doesn’t lie. But silence does.