My current attitude towards testnet points is: if I can earn it easily, I’ll take it, but don’t treat it as a salary that must be cashed out in the future… Once I start calculating “how much this wave should be worth,” I know it’s time to cut losses.

To put it simply, it was originally for practice, but practicing can easily become addictive, leading to changing routines for points, repeatedly interacting, and even moving mainnet funds around as padding, which is dangerous. My stop-loss thresholds are quite simple: first, time—if a single project takes more than half an hour a day, I stop; second, cost—the accumulated transaction fees from bridging back and forth reach a number that makes me feel pain, I stop; third, emotion—if I get the thought “just one more time and I’ll be done,” I stop.

Recently, new L1/L2 projects are offering incentives to pull TVL, and old users complaining about “mining, selling, and dumping” I can empathize with… Anyway, I treat the testnet as a simulation, take screenshots as notes, and if I really want to push my expectations, I first ask myself: would I still do this if there were no tokens issued? If not, then forget it.