Recently I kept farming testnet points, and it started to make me doubt my life. It was originally just for practice—just to get my hands on it—but once I started calculating in my head, “How much can I exchange for later?” then it stopped being practice. It was already a failure of expectation management, like I was treating myself as if I were already exiting liquidity.

To put it plainly, my stop-loss isn’t on-chain; it’s in my fingers: every day, the maximum number of hours I can spend, the maximum number of times I can sign, the maximum number of plugins I can install—once I go beyond that, I stop, even if the group is still yelling “a final-week sprint.”

I’ve seen too many inflation + studio + coin-price spirals in chain games. Points are kind of like that too: the more you grind, the less they’re worth; the less they’re worth, the more you want to grind to get back what you put in.

Anyway, the take-profit line I set for myself is: as soon as it starts affecting my real life or my trading mindset, I pull out… As for where you put your line, that depends on whether you’re willing to admit that you’ve already gotten hooked.