--- title: "The Market's Wildest Misfits: From Quantum Security to Crypto Car Sales" type: "News" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/293448850.md" description: "While Wall Street obsesses over tech giants, the market's fringes are staging wild pivots. From a cash-printing metal can giant to an auto platform gambling on crypto, we critique 10 unclassified oddballs to see who is building real value." datetime: "2026-07-22T09:18:23.000Z" locales: - [zh-CN](https://longbridge.com/zh-CN/news/293448850.md) - [en](https://longbridge.com/en/news/293448850.md) - [zh-HK](https://longbridge.com/zh-HK/news/293448850.md) --- # The Market's Wildest Misfits: From Quantum Security to Crypto Car Sales All the oxygen in the room is being sucked up by the trillion-dollar tech giants, but if you dig into the market's unclassified "other" bin, you find a highly contrasting, completely absurd universe. This is where you'll find the most boring, cash-printing businesses of 2026 sitting right next to the most laughable trend-chasers. It's a stress test for what capital is actually willing to fund right now. Let's start with the most absurd of the bunch: TuanChe (TC.US). This is stupid and here's why. We've seen this movie before during the dot-com bubble and the ICO craze. A Chinese comprehensive auto service platform suddenly decides to rebrand itself as "Token Cat," approves a massive USD 1B crypto asset investment policy, and sets out to build a 30 MW AI data center in New York. Recent volatility in their shares is purely speculative. Even Mark Zuckerberg needs ad revenue to fund his metaverse fever dreams. Abandoning your core business to chase crypto and compute without a safety net? Good luck with that. Instead of watching these hallucinatory pivots, look at the legacy players that are actually minting money. In this frothy market, boring is the new sexy. Crown Holdings (CCK.US) sells beverage cans. In Q2 2026, they delivered USD 3.67B in revenue, crushed earnings expectations, and saw their stock hit a 52-week high. Similarly surprising is Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF.US). The millennial mall staple is not just surviving; they maintained positive top-line growth in Q1 2026 with a gross margin nearing 63%. Wall Street clearly prefers hard profits over buzzword-laden pitch decks. Then we have the hardware and IT players desperately slapping AI labels on themselves. Corsair Gaming (CRSR.US) had a decent Q1 with over USD 354M in revenue, but by May they were furiously integrating AI layers into their streaming gear, desperate to prove they are more than just a keyboard maker. 3 E Network (MASK.US) went even further. An IT solutions provider suddenly announcing in July a pivot to custom edge AI chips for smart healthcare and robotics. Why can't you just stick to what you know? Of course, this grab-bag does have some legitimate tech bets. Arqit Quantum (ARQQ.US) is selling quantum-safe encryption. In an era of rampant hacking, the logic is sound, and they scored a Vodafone portfolio partnership earlier this year, but scaling commercialization will take time. Securitize (SECZ.US) is taking a different route, pulling in Ark Invest and Hanwha Group in July to tokenize real-world assets—a far more serious endeavor than just buying tokens. Meanwhile, Rekor Systems (REKR.US) is doing road intelligence, posting over USD 10M in Q1 revenue and seeing recent stock momentum on upbeat guidance. Though, hawking license plate surveillance under the guise of "privacy-first" is a bit of dark humor. Finally, we have quiet operators like PennantPark Floating Rate Cap (PFLT.US), riding the private credit wave after pricing a USD 100M note offering in May, and FreeCast (CAST.US), which just scooped up USD 23.7M in private placement to re-bundle the fragmented streaming landscape. Looking at these leftovers, the 2026 playbook is clear: companies doing the unglamorous work of generating cash are getting repriced higher, while the ones stamping AI and Crypto on their foreheads are mostly masking weak fundamentals. My view? Stick to the beverage cans and old clothes, and run far away from the name-changers. _This article does not constitute investment advice._ ### Related Stocks - [ARQQ.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/ARQQ.US.md) - [CRSR.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/CRSR.US.md) - [TC.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/TC.US.md) - [ANF.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/ANF.US.md) - [SECZ.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/SECZ.US.md) - [PFLT.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/PFLT.US.md) - [CAST.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/CAST.US.md) - [MASK.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/MASK.US.md) - [REKR.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/REKR.US.md) - [CCK.US](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/CCK.US.md) ## Related News & Research - [16:05 ETCROWN HOLDINGS, INC. 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