Recently, I’ve been seeing a bunch of “social mining/points leaderboard” games. To put it simply, it’s trading your time for a possible airdrop expectation, and it also ends up turning you into a set of “identity labels”: today you’re an OG, tomorrow you’re an X-Chain leader… It sounds pretty fun to look at, but it’s very easy to end up hollowing people out. I personally treat options volatility like an ECG—I’m most afraid of being dragged along by emotions. The points system is the same: even though I haven’t lost any money, I get mentally exhausted first and end up “losing” anyway.

And now public opinion also loves to tie together ETF fund flows, US stock risk appetite, and crypto price swings for interpretation, as if you’ll miss something if you don’t check the news every day. Anyway, I’ve set a simple rule for myself: only do interactions that can conveniently leave you with assets/permissions—ones that are just for badge check-ins, I’ll pass. I’d rather have fewer points and more sleep… When there’s truly valuable an identity (for example, governance rights, fee reductions, a whitelist), it’s not too late to take it seriously.