There is never a shortage of legends in the crypto world, nor a shortage of stories about young people aspiring to great achievements. But Vida, a post-00s generation, exemplifies what it truly means to be a "real information gap hunter" through his actions.

When a major exchange launched ACT in 2024, this guy's operation was simply incredible—he preemptively ambushed the English announcement 7 seconds early, took only 2 seconds to build a large position, and ultimately raked in 24 million RMB. He became famous overnight and was dubbed the "Arbitrage King" in the trading circle.

But this is just the surface. What’s truly worth noting is how he got to this point.

Vida was born in Jiangsu into a middle-class family, in 2000. His childhood labels weren’t very flattering—bottom of the class in math, 194 on the high school entrance exam, IQ test score of only 70, a typical "bad student" profile. But he later switched tracks, and everything changed. Attending a 3+1 international high school awakened his English talent and nonlinear thinking, and he began to realize he had a natural sensitivity to information gaps. He inherited a set of investment philosophies from his father: go against the crowd, and focus relentlessly on what he’s good at.

At 16, Vida used information gap arbitrage to earn his first 1 million yuan. He never stopped since then.

In college, he shifted to the crypto market. In 2018, he used manual trading, growing his capital from 1 million to 7 million; in 2021, he coded his trading logic and built a team for automation, achieving over 10 million in profit in a year; in 2022, a sudden realization during a chat with peers—speed is everything in the trading battlefield. So he created a millisecond-level information capture system, leveraging time advantage to exploit information gaps.

The ACT case is a prime example of peak operation. But even more impressive is that he also developed a bot to monitor Twitter—whenever Elon posts about a certain coin, he immediately copies the trade. This move earned him another big profit.

Now, at 25, he is already financially free, but his ambitions remain. He aims to reach 100 million USD in assets within three years, establish a hedge fund in Singapore or Dubai, and even plans to engage in some charitable work in the future. This is the real highlight of the story— from a boy once labeled as a "dumb kid" to someone who rewrote his life through speed and information advantage.