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UBS says its wealthy clients are pulling money out of U.S.-dollar assets and shifting their investments to gold- crypto, and Chinese markets over trade tensions and a volatile global economy. Investors felt safe keeping most of their wealth in U.S.-based assets for years because of the country’s strong economy, stable currency, and deep financial markets. Still, recent trade disputes, new tariffs, and concerns about the long-term strength of the dollar are crushing their confidence. The co-head of wealth management for Asia at USB, Amy Lo, said that the company’s wealthy clients are pulling away from U.S.-dollar investments as they feel uneasy about putting too much of their money in assets tied to the U.S. dollar amid global economic uncertainty and the ongoing trade tensions between the United States and China . Amy Lo also noted that most of their clients are turning to gold because it isn’t tied to any single government or currency, while others are putting their cash in cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, which are becoming more widely accepted as alternative assets that balance traditional portfolios. Pro-crypto lawyer and strong advocate for XRP holders, John Deaton, even commented in a post on X saying, “We have officially reached the point where it is far more riskier to have zero exposure to Crypto than it is to allocate a small percentage of your net worth to it.” Clients are also looking for opportunities that offer growth without relying on the U.S. economy alone, which makes them more focused on managing risks and not just chasing high returns. UBS and other wealth management firms stated that these investors are adopting structured asset allocation models that spread risk more evenly. Morgan Stanley, for example, recommends a 40-40-15 split whereby 40% of your assets are in fixed-income bonds, another 40% in equities or stocks, and 15% in alternative investments like private equity or hedge funds, with the remaining 5% held in cash or cash-like assets in case of market downturns. Many wealthy investors who avoided the Chinese market for the past few years because of poor performance, strict regulations, and ongoing tensions with the United States are now slowly shifting their money back into Chinese assets due to strong stock performance, a more positive trade environment , and innovations from Chinese companies. Hong Kong’s stock market, the Hang Send Index (HSI) , is one of the best-performing stock indexes in the world in 2025, and Amy Lo explains that clients are now asking her directly about investment opportunities in the country after years of avoiding anything to do with China. This shift shows how quickly investor sentiment can change when signs of progress and stability appear. The recent tariff truce between the U.S. and China helped cool down some trade war tensions that affected global markets. The United States lowered its tariffs on most Chinese imports from 145% to 30% for 90 days, while China cut down its duties from 125% to 10% and agreed to remove some of their countermeasures set in 2018, which gave investors hope that trade will continue to improve and make China a more attractive opportunity. A private wealth management expert at Morgan Stanley believes that the recent trade agreement between China and the U.S. has created new growth opportunities in both countries and that repositioning investor interest back to China is simultaneous with a recovery in U.S. growth stocks. Morgan Stanley expects its high-net-worth clients will earn 7% to 8% in total annual returns over the next seven to ten years, but Christina warns that achieving these returns is now more difficult because of volatile markets. For this reason, clients are now rethinking how much risk they are taking, how their portfolios are balanced, and what role each type of investment plays in helping them meet their financial goals. KEY Difference Wire helps crypto brands break through and dominate headlines fast

Polygon’s native cryptocurrency, POL, is trading around $0.258 as of May 13, 2025 — still far from its all-time highs and struggling to gain strong upward momentum. Despite broader market volatility, Polygon ( POL ) has been busy building. The network is rolling out major upgrades that it hopes will reshape its future, including a new token and infrastructure aimed at making Ethereum ( ETH ) faster and cheaper. Polygon is best known as a “Layer 2” network for Ethereum. That means it helps scale Ethereum by moving activity off the main blockchain, while still using its security. But now, Polygon is moving beyond just one network. Under its “Polygon 2.0” plan, it’s evolving into a whole ecosystem of connected chains, powered by a new technology called zkEVM—zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine. This tech promises more efficient, secure transactions. As part of this shift, the project migrated from the MATIC token to a new one called POL. This new token will support more use cases, like securing multiple chains and participating in governance decisions. Polygon recently launched the Agglayer Breakout Program to incubate and launch high-impact blockchain projects. Graduated projects allocated 5–15% of their token supply to POL stakers through airdrops. These projects connected to Agglayer upon launch, enhancing network activity and value for the POL token. Analysts are divided. Short-term forecasts are cautious—CoinCodex sees POL reaching only about $0.27 by next month, while Coinpedia sees the price topping out at $0.47 by next year. But long-term bulls like DigitalCoinPrice see a much brighter future, predicting POL could hit $3.91 by the end of 2025 if adoption takes off.

Analysis: DeCC has raised over $1 billion in funding to solve the key encryption requirements of data in blockchain systems Messari released a research report, which pointed out that the field of decentralized confidential computing (DeCC) is exploding, and projects in this field have received more than $1 billion in venture capital. This capital inflow reflects the industry's growing interest in DeCC technology, and the team is focusing on practical application integration and infrastructure construction for developers. DeCC introduces the ability to protect data privacy while maintaining the inherent transparency of public blockchains, thereby enabling private computing and status without sacrificing decentralization. This technology combines encryption tools such as zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs), multi-party computations (MPC), garbled circuits (GC), fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), and trusted execution environments (TEEs) with authentication to address key vulnerabilities faced by data in traditional and blockchain systems when in use, and enables encrypted computing without exposing plaintext. With the influx of funds, DeCC is moving from theory to actual deployment, and is expected to become a standard layer of the decentralized technology stack, supporting secure and trustless applications that were previously impossible on public infrastructure.

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