MildlyMEV

Lately, I've been watching the market and noticed that the funding rates are starting to become extreme again. Honestly, I feel quite conflicted: if I take the opposite side, theoretically, I'm "eating" the sentiment tax on that side, but I never know if the next spike will wipe me out completely; if I hide from the volatility, I always feel like I'm being cowardly and missing out on a seemingly "certain" trend.
Right now, I prefer not to rush into taking sides. First, let's break down the trading process: who is chasing gains and selling off, who is providing liquidity, and whether there are

Recently, I saw the secondary market arguing about whether royalties should be mandatory or not. To be honest, I can quite understand buyers wanting to save a bit, and I also understand creators relying on this to survive. But saying that "canceling royalties = more freedom and liquidity" is too simplistic. It actually makes me more anxious... I see simplicity as a trap. Many times, it's just shifting costs from the obvious to the hidden: those who are better at creating pathways, aggregators, or even people who understand a bit about MEV end up taking the cut, while creators and ordinary user

Recently, it's again airdrop season, and a bunch of people in the group are grinding points on task platforms until it feels like clocking in at work... Honestly, I also find the badge/identity system quite interesting. Leaving some "resume" on the chain might really be useful someday, but some paths become awkward once you break them down: for a badge, repeatedly switching chains, re-authorizing, signing until your fingers go numb, and finally worrying about anti-fraud measures flagging you as a bot and clearing you. On second thought, isn't this just exchanging time and risk for a voucher th

Do you feel like now grinding for crypto really feels more and more like going to work...
A task platform with a bunch of checklists, check-ins, reposts, filling out forms, doing interactions, and finally looking at a "score," just like performance reviews.
I also understand the need to prevent issues with witches, but sometimes it’s really mysterious: if a wallet path looks just a little similar, it gets cut off completely, making me wonder every time I click confirm, "Am I sending MEV sandwiches to someone else?"
What’s more annoying is that everyone loves to explain everything using E

Last night, I looked into the governance voting of a certain protocol, and the more I read, the more uncomfortable I felt: everyone talks about "community co-governance," but in reality, many votes are actually delegated, and in the end, they end up in the hands of a few people or institutions. To put it plainly, the governance tokens might not be controlling the protocol parameters, but rather people's attention and emotions—what you think you're participating in is actually just stamping approval on the decisions of oligarchs.
I'm not completely against delegation either; ordinary people don

Just got back from watching the market, HTX took off immediately, unbelievable.

Congratulations to those who follow the script; trading is not about prediction, it's about execution.

This is what it feels like to hit the target as planned, respect.

Recently, my wallets keep increasing, and my assets are becoming more fragmented. To be honest, it's not about whether I made money or not; I can barely keep track of which chain I'm on anymore... I'm now sticking to two main layers: one "clean main wallet" that only holds long-term and governance tokens, hardly signing any transactions; and another "operation wallet" dedicated to grabbing incentives on new L1/L2 chains. After farming, I consolidate everything back, otherwise, small tokens scattered across various chains just end up being a rant about how I can only mine, withdraw, and sell my

Honestly, I’ve been a bit overwhelmed lately from all the group messages. Once a KOL thread gets posted, it’s like a dozen-plus messages in one swipe—paired with narratives like “modularization/DA layer,” where developers are chatting nonstop, while regular users (like me) are left completely dumbfounded… and then my hand is more likely to tremble. As for impulsively placing orders, in the end, the ones who pay the bill aren’t the group or the KOLs—it’s still my own wallet.
These days, I actually prefer to break down the transaction path first: after this order enters the pool, are there any w