Recently, I’ve been grinding testnet points so much it feels like working a part-time job. It was supposed to be just practice, but once I silently thought “They should give an airdrop,” my hands started to disobey: adding positions, interacting with the plus sign, staying up late to wait for task updates… Honestly, when practice turns into expectations, that’s when you should set a stop-loss.

My current stop-loss is pretty basic: spend no more than 1 hour a day + a fixed gas budget, and stop immediately if I exceed it, even if the group is still shouting “The snapshot is coming soon.” Also, I review once a week; if the project’s popularity drops or the rules become more “cutthroat,” I just consider it graduated and stop fighting myself.

I don’t regret the outcome; I regret pushing through when I felt something was off, putting all my time and emotions into it. Especially recently, with taxes and compliance tightening and loosening unpredictably, deposit and withdrawal expectations changing, people are more likely to cling to “points” as a lifeline… Anyway, I’ve put on the handbrake first—going slow is fine.