Lately, I’ve been struggling a bit with the task platform. In the past, earning rewards felt like finding a bargain; now it’s more like clocking in at work: check-ins, retweets, on-chain traces, and in the end, they even give you a score, like performance reviews, keeping an eye on your “activity level.” Witches are even caught in the crossfire—if you don’t run multiple accounts, you’re worried about missing out; if you do, you’re afraid of a mass shutdown… Anyway, when I see the high score mechanism now, I first think: who’s setting the rules, who has the authority to change the thresholds, and whether they might just shut the door during a squeeze.

What’s even more outrageous is that those on-chain operations still have to compete with miners/validators and MEV for transaction ordering. Retail investors complaining about “fairness” really resonates with me: I follow the steps, but because of queuing or jumping the line, my task becomes invalid, like HR saying “not compliant”…

What I’ve learned isn’t skills, but that the more “formal” a process looks, the more you need to first find where the knife is hidden.