Over these past two days, I’ve been a bit dazed from grinding testnet tasks. It was originally just practice, but once everyone started chatting, it turned into, “There’s definitely an airdrop,” “If I don’t do it, I’ll be losing out”… The moment the hype hit, my mindset instantly shifted from practicing to placing bets. My stop-loss is pretty old-school: first set a cap on my time and energy—like, I’ll only mess around for two nights a week, and I stop if I go over; then also cap my wallet permissions and the number of signatures—once I start finding it troublesome or I begin getting irritated, it’s about time to pull out. After all, don’t drain your safety and your normal life just for “possible points.”

Speaking of expectations, the NFT royalty side also gets argued over in a way that feels pretty similar—creators want certainty in their income, while the market wants smoother liquidity… In the end, it’s still just emotional back-and-forth. Forget it—I’ll treat “practice” as practice, and not train myself into a leek.