The boom has gone through one round after another; narratives will become outdated, but understanding and discipline will not.

In 2016, I first came into contact with Gate—not because I understood blockchain that well back then, nor because I immediately saw how big the future of this industry could be. Honestly, the reason I entered the space was very simple, even a bit reckless—back then, getting into a capital pool required deposits, and U was needed, so a friend just recommended Gate to me. That’s how an otherwise ordinary opportunity pulled me into a world that would later completely change my understanding and my life’s trajectory.

Now when I look back, many people’s ways of entering the crypto world don’t really look either classy or smart. Some come in because of a friend’s one line—“you can make money.” Some are lured by the myth of a moonshot. Some even start recharging, buying coins, and trading without even figuring out what blockchain is. I was pretty much the same. At the time, I didn’t understand industry logic, didn’t understand cycles, and even less did I know what true value investing really meant—I just knew this market was new, intense, and exciting. But somehow, right from that moment, my connection with Gate has lasted for all these years.

Over all these years, so much has changed in this industry. Bull markets have come and gone, and bear markets have taught countless people a hard lesson; one wave of frenzy after another—from ICOs to DeFi, from NFTs to inscriptions, from the wild excitement of getting rich overnight to the calm after everything turns into a mess—every stage saw people entering, and also people leaving. Many platforms have disappeared, many projects have gone to zero, and many narratives that once drowned out everything with noise are now so rarely mentioned that even their names are almost forgotten. But Gate is still here, and so am I.

At the end of the day, being able to stay in this industry for this long is never just about luck. It’s about whether you can keep going, whether you can take the pressure, whether you can avoid losing yourself when things are at their liveliest, and whether you can refrain from giving up easily when things get quiet. “13 years” is not a lightweight number—it represents the suffering of countless moments when market conditions swung violently, the emotional tug-of-war when accounts rose and fell, and the process of having your understanding shattered again and again, then rebuilding it from scratch. To be able to stick to your true self for 13 years—I think that in itself is not an easy thing.

So if you ask me what my biggest gain from these 13 years is, I think it probably isn’t about how much money I made, or how many hot spots I managed to catch. It’s that I’ve slowly learned to look at this industry with a more long-term perspective. I started to understand that what can truly survive cycles has never been emotion, never been following the crowd, and never been short-term noise. It’s belief, it’s patience, and it’s the willingness to treat time like a friend.

What will the future be like? No one can be 100% certain. But if you ask me to boldly think it through, boldly believe it, and then make a long-term judgment as an old player, I’m willing to give the future 13 years a nearly crazy prediction: GT has a chance to rise to 10000 US dollars, and BTC has a chance to reach 500 million US dollars per coin. Many people, when they see numbers like these, will definitely think they’re exaggerated—maybe even unrealistic. But the longer you stay in this industry, the more you’ll understand that what seems out of reach today, when placed in a long enough time frame, might not truly be just fantasy. Who would have thought Bitcoin would go from a few dollars to tens of thousands? And who, in the earliest days, could truly understand that crypto would grow into the scale we have today?

Of course, I know predictions are predictions, and the market won’t follow a script just because of someone’s words. But I’d rather take this kind of bold imagination as a form of confidence in the future. When a person is willing to put 13 years into an industry, is willing to accompany it through bubbles, doubt, regulation, crashes, and rebuilding, it already shows that what they’re betting on is never just the price—it’s the direction of an era.

From getting to know Gate in 2016 because of a need to deposit funds, to today still standing in this market, continuing to watch, continue to learn, and continue to trade—I’m increasingly convinced that some fates aren’t just coincidence, but answers that time leaves behind. For me, Gate is no longer just a trading platform. It’s more like the starting point of my entry into this industry, and a witness to how I got to where I am today.

Thirteen years ago, I might have just stumbled in by accident. Thirteen years later, I hope I can still stand here—keeping that initial sensitivity to opportunity, and holding onto the calmness and determination that I’ve honed along the way. Because I always believe that the rewards belonging to true long-term believers may arrive late, but they won’t be absent forever. #我与Gate的故事 #Gate13年我最想说 #下一个13年预测 @Gate广场_Official