Recently, I’ve seen a bunch of people go crazy interacting for airdrops—and in the end, they either get hit by scams or end up clicking on fake sites. It’s pretty surreal. Plain and simple: an airdrop isn’t a paycheck; it’s a lottery. The more you treat it like certainty, the easier it is to get carried away.

Actually, my current approach is a kind of “cold-wallet cleanliness” mindset: I use a dedicated small wallet for interactions, with small amounts and one-time approvals. After I’m done, I clear/delete the permissions. If the project wants you to approve endlessly or to sign a bunch of weird, hard-to-understand messages, I take it as them screening out greedy users and I just skip it. Missing out is fine—FOMO is the most expensive emotion.

By the way, just to rant: recently, some people tried to force-fit ETF capital flows and the risk appetite in US stocks into “the answer to crypto’s rise and fall,” and they can make up stories for both bullish and bearish views… I just have one rule: the excitement belongs to others, and the permissions and private keys are yours. Don’t hand over the keys just for a few airdrop tickets.