Glider CEO Brian Huang believes the most significant shift in crypto over the next cycle will not come from tokens, new chains, or even automated trading, but from making blockchains effectively invisible to users.
In an interview with Yellow.com on the sidelines of Solana's Breakpoint event, Huang said the current requirement to choose networks, manage gas, and manually bridge assets is “broken,” and that the industry is moving toward erasing these frictions entirely.
Chain Selection Should Not Exist
Huang argues that the idea of users selecting a blockchain before making an investment or moving assets is fundamentally outdated.
“Anytime I go to an app and it tells me select network, I lose it,” he said. “This should not be a thing. I shouldn’t have to select what network I’m on.”
According to him, the decisive UX breakthrough will come when investing across chains feels more like using a brokerage account than interacting with blockchain infrastructure.
A user should be able to say what they want like buy, sell, lend, rebalance, shift exposure, without having to understand the underlying chain mechanics.
“The chain doesn’t matter,” Huang said. “It’s like SWIFT. You don’t think about how money moves from the US to Canada. You only care about the asset you’re buying or selling.”
The Missing Link: Real Assets And On-Chain Stocks
Huang said cross-chain portfolio management has stalled partly because most blockchains still lack the assets that ordinary investors care about.
While the crypto market is roughly $4 trillion, he noted that “Nvidia alone is $4 trillion,” arguing that chains must offer real-world assets and on-chain stocks before user behavior meaningfully converges.
His view is that the future of investing involves holding assets such as equities directly on-chain, not for novelty, but for yield and efficiency. “Why would you hold Tesla on Robinhood when you can hold Tesla on-chain and lend it for yield?” he asked.
Also Read: BOJ To Start ETF Sales Next Month In Unwinding Plan That Could Take 100 Years
Automation As Safeguard, Not Speculation
Huang rejected the growing narrative around AI agents and fully autonomous trading bots, calling most such offerings “hype” and noting that “magical trading bots don’t exist.”
Instead, he said automation should focus on removing operational overhead, simplifying tasks like rebalancing, exits during de-pegs, and shifting liquidity across chains, not speculating on behalf of users.
“There’s too much plumbing today,” he said. “This should be automated. What you want is the intent. Everything else like gas, bridging, signatures should get abstracted away.”
A Normalization Of Long-Term Behavior
Huang also believes a more profound behavioral shift is coming. After years of meme-driven speculation, he expects users to gradually return to more traditional, long-term investing habits.
“The idea of hitting a lottery ticket on a meme is far and few between,” he said. “Growing wealth happens over long periods of compounding. I think we’re going to see people get a little bit lazier and that’s a good thing.”
Huang argues that automation, yield-bearing assets, and cross-chain simplicity will ultimately reshape how crypto portfolios are managed.
“The majority of people using Glider make money because they’re not hunting memes — they’re holding BTC, SOL, lending stablecoins, and investing in RWAs,” he said. “That’s the future of on-chain investing.”
Read Next: Bitcoin Wipes Out All Fed Gains As Traders Brace For BOJ Liquidity Shock