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Recently, I’m getting spammed by airdrop news again, and I’m itching to interact—but I’m also afraid of getting reverse-farmed. To put it plainly, I’m treating myself as a “candidate on the airdrop-wool blacklist” for now: wherever I can, I sign as little as possible, and I revoke any unnecessary unlimited authorizations. Also, don’t pick routes at random—if I see that sort of situation where it inexplicably takes an extra two hops, I’d rather not do it. A large portion of slippage ends up being fed to other people.
FOMO isn’t impossible either, but I set a personal limit: keep a fixed budget for each chain and each protocol only. If I lose it all, I’ll just treat it as tuition—don’t chase to top up. Anyway, with the current “nested” backlash around yield stacking from restaking and shared security, I’m even more inclined to first observe real on-chain usage and fund inflows/outflows, rather than turning myself into someone else’s exit liquidity just for a “possible airdrop.”