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Lately, I’ve been farming testnet points, and it’s starting to make me feel a bit guilty… It was originally meant for practice—figuring out how the account abstraction/“bundler” paths could be made more gas-efficient—but everyone just assumed, “Anyway, there’ll be an airdrop,” and the practice quietly turned into something I started to expect. My stop-loss is: once I begin doing interactions for points that I normally would never do (especially ones that require repeated signatures), I stop; and one more rule—if the cost of a single order (time + gas + all the tool-tinkering) exceeds the maximum I’m willing to pay as tuition, I stop immediately. I’d rather miss out.
Lately, the staking unlock and the token unlock calendar have been talked about again and again. Once the anxiety about sell pressure kicks in, it becomes even easier to treat “points” like a lifeline… In plain terms, I need to stay calm. What I fear most isn’t losing money, but training myself to be the kind of person who only chases expectations. For now, that’s it—I’m not adding any transactions tonight.