I recently realized a fundamental issue—most of the assets in my wallet are not manually managed by me, but are controlled by a bunch of code. This discovery left me stunned and gave me a completely different perspective on automated trading.

Just think about how things are handled now. Regular dollar-cost averaging, automatic compounding, asset rebalancing, risk hedging... these tasks have long been entrusted to systems. In the past, I had to stare at candlestick charts, fearing to miss any fluctuations; now, everything is handled automatically by algorithms. This shift is truly quite noticeable.

But there's a catch—these automation tools are not really smart at all. They lack human intuition, can't distinguish fake breakouts, and can't tell whether news is real or fake. Robots do one thing: read data and react. If the data is wrong, they will stubbornly continue to make mistakes, without hesitation.

It's precisely because of this that I believe oracles and similar systems are especially critical. They are not just single sources of price information but aggregate various data, perform multi-layer verification, and provide a trustworthy reference for automated systems. To humans, it's just a tool; to those robots, it's essentially a life-or-death line—without it, they can't really operate.

And whether automated trading can run stably ultimately depends on these data infrastructure systems. Those maintaining the network are not just pressing a button and calling it a day—they must continuously ensure the reliability of the entire system.