Recently, I went to earn some testnet points again. It was supposed to be just practice, but as I kept doing it, my mindset changed: I started thinking about "whether I can exchange something at that time." Once expectations pop into my head, my hands tend to get heavy, I dare to increase gas fees recklessly, and I don’t take small cross-chain transfers seriously... Meanwhile, there's still noise outside about rate cut expectations, the dollar index is moving up and down with risk assets, and that kind of "it’s going to rise anyway / it’s going to fall anyway" atmosphere is very hypnotic.

I now set stop-losses for this kind of "practice turning into expectations" thing—treat it as a game that could go to zero, and decide in advance how much money I’m willing to spend or how much time I’ll dedicate to it. Also, whenever I encounter bridging, signing a bunch of unfamiliar contracts, or connecting the main wallet, I just stop. No matter how tempting the points are, it’s not worth risking a security breach from an authorization. Staying safe is more important, and there will be another wave anyway.