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#Meme币市场 Recently, I saw a brother reflecting on how he wasted eight years in the encryption industry. The core complaint is: this is not about building a new financial system at all, but about operating a 24/7 casino. To be honest, it hit me a bit hard.
But on the contrary, the "casino" phenomenon he mentioned is actually completely different from our logic of profiting. Gambling is a zero-sum game; whoever wins loses. The essence of airdrop interaction is to obtain the initial allocation rights of the project—project parties need to cold start, requiring active addresses and interaction data to support valuation. If we spend some time completing tasks, we can get tokens for free, which is a win-win transaction, not gambling.
The key difference is here: don't chase the price fluctuations of those air projects and meme coins; that's a gambling mindset. But if you can filter, understand strategies, and consistently interact with projects that have real progress at minimal cost to gain early airdrop rights, that's a skill.
The Meme coin market is now mixed with both good and bad, so it's important to learn how to distinguish between them. The contract interactions, wallet tags, and governance participation of new projects—these are all real on-chain data, and interactions leave traces. Instead of getting caught up in the ups and downs of the market, it's better to focus your energy on finding those new projects that have real interactions and planning. This way, even if the coin price drops later, you can at least say you have benefited from it.
Stick to interaction, reject the gambler's mentality, we are on a different path.