Recently, I’ve been doing testnet points, and somehow it slowly starts to feel a little off... It was originally just practice—also to see how the new modules run—but once you start talking in the group chat, it’s all “Is this points amount enough?” “Should I do another round?” Practice gradually turns into expectations, and it’s easy for people to get overly swept up. To be blunt, my self-imposed stop-loss is pretty crude: how much time I’ll spend at most each day, how many times I’ll interact at most in a row—once the Gas/cross-chain costs reach a certain point, I stop. And once I start repeatedly clicking the same process out of “fear of missing out,” I quit and go to sleep.

Now, between the L2s arguing over TPS, fees, and ecosystem subsidies, hearing it all the time makes me more anxious—but I still prefer to treat it like a star map: progress is something you piece together slowly, not something you grind out by farming. The group chat vibe is actually kind of cute; just remind each other not to overcompete is enough. That’s all for now.