A-shares surge crashes servers, crypto still waiting for Twitter to save it
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A-shares surge crashes servers, crypto still waiting for Twitter to save it
Because relying on oneself can't attract people.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsArticle by: TechFlow
The Shanghai Composite Index has hit 4,100 points.
This is a new 10-year high. Since the end of December 2025, the market has seen 16 consecutive green days—the last time this happened was in 2006. Retail investors are rushing in en masse, overwhelming brokerage servers and triggering system pop-ups.
This is a screenshot from Guotai Haigong's "Fuyi" trading platform circulating in certain crypto chat groups.
Never mind whether the image is real or fake—the FOMO sentiment around A-shares right now is absolutely genuine.
And if it *is* real, such incidents aren't even new in China’s stock market.
Whenever the market rallies, trading apps crash. In 2025, total trading volume reached 400 trillion yuan, with overall market capitalization surpassing 100 trillion yuan—both record highs. Too much money chasing too little infrastructure.
You can complain all you want, but the money keeps pouring in.
Meanwhile, what’s the crypto Twitter sphere talking about?
On January 11, Nikita Bier, product lead at X (and advisor to Solana), posted about a new feature called Smart Cashtags. In short, when posting on X, users will be able to tag specific tokens or smart contracts. Clicking on them would show real-time prices, and possibly even allow direct trading in the future.
The feature is slated for launch in February.
KOLs are already excited. Some analysts claim this could turn X into an entry point for both stocks and crypto trading. Others suggest potential collaborations with Solana meme coins. Some call it a critical step toward mass adoption.
Bier himself claims that X is already the best source of financial information, stating that “thousands of billions of dollars” have already been deployed based on information from X.
Thousands of billions of dollars.
But he didn’t mention how much of that was lost, or how many people ended up losing money.
Let me ask a question: Is what crypto lacks really just a “price-checking gateway”?
CoinGecko, CoinMarketCap, DEXScreener, Telegram bots, exchange apps, price aggregators—you name it. Open any one of them and you’ll find prices, K-lines, market caps, holder distributions, everything you need.
How saturated is this space?
Wallets are now adding market data features, terrified you might open another app just to check a price.
Now we’re supposed to believe that adding a “tap-to-see-price” function on X will save crypto adoption?
Every bear market, someone says we need better access points.
In 2024, they said ETFs were the answer. Then Bitcoin ETFs arrived, BTC hit new highs, but altcoins flatlined, and on-chain activity stagnated.
In 2025, they said we needed more institutional participation. Institutions came, Strategy bought hundreds of thousands of bitcoins—but altcoins still didn’t budge.
Now they say we need social media traffic as an entry point.
But let’s ask: Did the 2017 bull run have Smart Cashtags? Did the 2021 rally have a trading feature on X?
No. And yet people came anyway.
Retial investors don’t stay away because there aren’t enough entry points. They stay away because they got wrecked in the last cycle, or because this cycle hasn’t shown clear profit potential yet.
Why did A-share trading platforms get overwhelmed?
16 straight green days. 4,100 points. Profit opportunities visible to the naked eye. Retail investors vote with their feet—no one needs to “save adoption.”
Why does crypto need X to save it? Because it can’t attract users on its own.
This reverses cause and effect. It’s not “better entry → people come.” It’s “profit potential → people storm in regardless of entry quality.”
Money flows where returns are found.
Not where platforms exist.
When Musk acquired Twitter in 2022, he promised an Everything App.
Over two years later, most features remain vaporware—payments, trading, financial services—few have materialized.
Smart Cashtags is supposed to launch in February.
We can wait and see how many new users it brings, how much trading volume it generates.
But before that, I’d suggest first checking whether X’s own servers can handle the load. After all, A-share platforms crash because too many people are rushing in.
Crypto exchanges crash because everyone’s rushing out.
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