Lately, when I look at the pools in on-chain games, it really feels a bit like me packing lunch: you fill the lunchbox as full as you can, and even if you eat slowly, it can still go stale… once inflation hits, rewards are released faster than value is produced, and the actual worth that truly flows into the pool can’t hold up. In the end, everyone scrambles to exit—so the faster things run, the emptier the pool gets. Put simply, issuing tokens isn’t production, and production isn’t cash flow. On-chain the numbers may look like they’re going up, but in reality it’s just everyone taking over each other’s bags.

Airdrop season is pretty much the same. A points system turns the freebie-hunters into like they’re clocking in for work, and the anti-sybil/anti-witch measures on the task platforms keep getting tighter and tighter. Costs go up, and the rewards aren’t even guaranteed to come back. If an on-chain game treats “issuing rewards” as growth, then it’s basically just like grinding tasks to rack up points—busy and lively in the short term, and then it’s a complete mess afterward.

There are lots of tutorials. For my part, I’d rather watch the ones that break the economic model into a few cash-flow tracks and consumption points, not the fancy “earnings screenshot” fluff. For now, that’s it—I’ll keep bundling these little interactions for today; if I can save a bit of gas, I will.