Lately, I’ve been getting a bit worn out from grinding testnet points… I originally did it just to practice, but once people start chatting, it turns into, “What should I be able to get.” Once the expectations kick in, it’s easy for people to add more time and more wallets—basically the same as taking a loss on a small position and not cutting it.

My personal stop-loss is pretty brutal: first set a cap (for example, no more than 1 hour a day, no more than X accounts, and no more than X dollars in Gas). If you exceed it, you stop—even if the group is still passing around that, “This round is huge.” There’s also a hard rule: if you can’t see any obvious signs of funds flowing back on-chain (big addresses haven’t moved, and the ecosystem’s TVL hasn’t improved), treat it as the end of the practice—don’t turn sunk costs into faith.

Recently, it’s been quite popular to compare RWA and US Treasury yields with on-chain yield products, but I’m actually more alert to that kind of “low-risk narrative” packaging. The same goes for testnet points: don’t use the possibility of future airdrops to justify the hassle you’re dealing with right now.

Too much information really does cause anxiety… For me, there are only two filtering methods: only look at on-chain data and updates that the project itself can verify. Any screenshots and second-hand interpretations are noise for now. If I’m wrong, I’ll correct it—anyway, I don’t want to look back and realize I was just being pushed around by my emotions.