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Recently, I've come across a bunch of "social mining/points/identity" tasks, feeling like chasing an ex: checking in daily, commenting, sharing, in exchange for a shiny badge... Basically, it's using time as collateral, and only when you unlock it do you realize you're not locking in tokens, but energy.
What's even funnier is that people are both watching the unlock calendar worried about selling pressure, and at the same time locking their schedules to give the project team free operations. Anyway, I just pick a few protocols I genuinely want to use and play around casually, instead of treating "possible airdrops" as salary.
I trust data a bit more, at least on-chain activity/retention won't flirt with me; intuition, well, often just tricks me when I have FOMO. That's all for now.