Altius Labs co-founder: Wall Street trading firms shift towards on chain infrastructure

Annabelle Huang, co-founder and CEO of Altius Labs, stated that the Alpha of Wall Street trading institutions is shifting from physical custody and nanosecond speed advantages to on chain infrastructure. Jump utilizes its high-frequency trading experience to develop a high-performance validator client, FireDancer, for Solana. Its supported project, DoubleZero, is seeking to commercialize a global private fiber and submarine cable network to reduce latency. Cumberland provides real-time cryptocurrency market data for Pyth Network, while Jane Street bought and sold over $110 billion in cryptocurrency in 2024 and hired former infrastructure manager for Copper. As stablecoins and real-world asset tokenization inject liquidity, the size of the on chain market will continue to expand, and the future Alpha will stem from the production, sorting, and monetization of the blockchain space.