An estimated $250 million has been withdrawn from the decentralized perpetual futures exchange Lighter following the airdrop of its native token, LIT, CoinDesk reported, citing on-chain data platform ...

An estimated $250 million has been withdrawn from the decentralized perpetual futures exchange Lighter following the airdrop of its native token, LIT, CoinDesk reported, citing on-chain data platform Bubble Maps. The outflow represents approximately 20% of Lighter's $1.4 billion in total value locked (TVL). Nicholas Vaiman, CEO of Bubble Maps, explained that while the figure appears substantial, such capital movements are a natural phenomenon after airdrops as users rebalance their positions and move on to the next yield farming opportunity.

Lighter sees $250M in withdrawals following LIT airdrop

Vida: Born after 2000, founder of Equation News, specializing in algorithmic trading. He once shared his story of earning tens of millions of US dollars in the crypto market.

Background: At 01:23 AM Beijing time on January 1, 2026, Equation News detected that a market maker's Binance account was highly suspected of being compromised. Potential attackers were suspected of using approximately $10 million to $20 million in funds from this account to manipulate the price of the BROCCOLI714-USDT trading pair on the Binance spot market.

The following is Vida's recap of the entire process: Prerequisites and Infrastructure:

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Earning a million at the start of 2026: "God of War" Vida recounts the entire trading process of the BROCCOLI714 incident.

Author: BITWU.ETH

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2025 is over. I wasn't really planning on writing a year-end summary.

Not because I had nothing to write about this year, but rather because it was all too real. So real that I'm not sure if writing this down will seem a bit "anti-climactic."

But after thinking about it, I decided to write it down anyway.

If you're also in the city...

2025 Year-End Review | Why I say my best move this year was doing nothing?

Author: Stacy Muur
Translator: CryptoLeo
Original Title: What are the characteristics and commonalities of tokens that performed reasonably well after TGE in 2025?

-------------------------------------------------------------- Last week, I translated a research post from Solus Group titled "Over 80% of new tokens peaked at TGE; the root cause and solution to the Web3 false boom lies here," which analyzed 113 tokens in 2025...