Just saw that Digital Quant 2026 has made a rather interesting move—it’s no longer just playing around with the usual Bitcoin and Ethereum setup. Now they’ve expanded to include global assets like stocks, gold, and oil too. It feels like they’re trying to take the playbook of quantitative trading from the purely crypto market to truly cross-market strategies.

This time, the framework update is called “Cross-Market Quant 3.0,” supporting assets including U.S. and Hong Kong stocks, precious metals, and commodities. The evaluation criteria have also changed—not just focusing on returns, but also on risk management and macro hedging capability. The organizer, Kevin Ren, said this isn’t just a competition—it’s more like building a platform for future global digital asset quantitative trading.

The competition has already started trading (it kicked off on March 30), so we should be about halfway through now. It feels like this multi-asset allocation approach will indeed attract more institutional investors, since they were already playing cross-market hedging. There’s also a networking event in Hong Kong, a Web3 festival in late April, and finally an award ceremony.

What do you think about this kind of quantitative model that mixes traditional financial assets with on-chain assets?