Top 1 to 75: "Liang Xi and his team" are tearing apart the entire crypto community

Last night, the $ASTER trading competition leaderboard experienced a silent earthquake. The young Liang Xi, who once topped the chart and declared he would "lie flat and win," slid from the top ten like a falling meteor, ultimately settling at 75th place. Along with the ranking, his account’s $95,000 USD vanished—representing most of his assets from yesterday. From the clouds to the mud, it was just a matter of a "trash talk" and a night of operations. Liang Xi’s dramatic fall is like a stone thrown into a lake, with ripples that go far beyond the accidental loss of a genius trader. It precisely reflects and intensifies the deepest polarizing split in the current cryptocurrency world.

On one hand, Liang Xi’s survival model—relying on extraordinary intuition, fearless leverage, and highly charismatic "call signals"—embodies the most primitive and wild "grassroots heroism" in the crypto space. He is a living fossil of the fundamentalist belief: the market is a pure probability game, where personal talent and courage can override everything. Every rise and fall of his is an extreme interpretation of the ultimate dream of "getting rich quickly," attracting countless followers eager to replicate his path.

However, the paradox is that the very ground Liang Xi depends on is undergoing a structural shift beneath his feet. His participation in this AI-human trading competition itself is a clear signal. When the core of the contest emphasizes algorithmic stability, strategic robustness, and risk control models, Liang Xi’s reliance on human emotion and on-the-spot manual trading now seems like outdated weaponry from a previous era. His massive loss last night is less about bad luck and more about systemic discomfort in a battlefield increasingly dominated by machines, data, and programmed logic.

This is the brutal divide unfolding in the crypto world: one pole is represented by Liang Xi’s highly personalized, narrative-driven, emotionally charged "internet celebrity trading" culture; the other pole is the future of "FinTech" driven by institutional standards, compliance, and technological barriers, exemplified by organizers like $ASTER. The former creates idols and stories; the latter builds infrastructure and rules. The former thrives on market volatility and carnival-like excitement; the latter aims to absorb and smooth out fluctuations.

Liang Xi dropping from first place to 75th is itself a metaphor. He may still climb back up with remarkable resilience, even return to the top. But it’s undeniable that the rules of the entire track are being rewritten. As quant funds, smart contracts, and institutional-grade asset management tools gradually become mainstream narratives, the legendary aura of individual traders will inevitably be diluted. Liang Xi’s "liquidation" not only wiped out his position but also stripped away the halo of the old retail-led, purely gambling logic era.

Liang Xi will not disappear, and his followers remain large. But his story will gradually evolve from a "mythical template" into a "cultural phenomenon"—watched, discussed, even nostalgic—yet increasingly difficult for mainstream capital and industry trends to see as a model. His fate will become one of the most vivid and contradictory metrics in observing the transition of the crypto world from wild west to regulated society. This competition’s leaderboard is not just a ranking; it’s a clear fault line scan: what we see is the rise and fall of a genius trader, but beneath the surface, it’s the intense movement and reassembly of the entire crypto world’s crust. In the future, it will belong to those who can build bridges across this fissure, rather than just daring adventurers dancing on the edge.