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To be honest, recently participating in airdrop interactions feels a bit like playing the lottery, and you have to watch out for project teams retaliating against early users. My approach is pretty simple: not chasing hot topics with the mindset of "miss out today and you'll miss a hundred million," first checking contract permissions / whether you can blacklist or change rules at any time, then seeing if the liquidity pool is actually being used by real people, otherwise it's just scammers putting on a show for each other. Interactions should also be small amounts, multiple times, but not too deliberate—better to miss some opportunities than expose main wallets with strange permissions.
And those on-chain data tools, tagging systems... I’m not sure how much to trust them either. Recently, being called out for lagging behind or being misleading isn’t without reason; many "smart money" tags look like armchair analysis after the fact. Anyway, I now focus more on fund flows and timing, and don’t get too hyped up just because of a bunch of tags. FOMO, the more you try to hold onto it, the easier it is to get caught. That’s all for now.