Amir Zaidi has been appointed Chief of Staff to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner Summer K. Mersinger, The Block reported. Zaidi previously worked at the CFTC from 2010 to ...

Amir Zaidi has been appointed Chief of Staff to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner Summer K. Mersinger, The Block reported. Zaidi previously worked at the CFTC from 2010 to 2019, where his duties included the supervision of Bitcoin futures contracts.

CFTC commissioner appoints former Bitcoin futures supervisor as chief of staff

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...