Lately, I’ve been panicking a bit from farming testnet points… It was originally just for practice, but then my brain started automatically calculating, “If this were an airdrop, how much could it be worth?” Once I set that expectation in my head, it’s easy to keep upping the stakes, stay up late, and not feel willing to stop. In plain terms, I give myself a patch: treat the testnet as paid lessons, set a “tuition cap”—a mental budget for the maximum amount of time/how much gas I’m willing to spend today. Once I hit it, I close the webpage and go eat chips—no more arguing with myself.

And there’s also that urge to do “two more transactions” to feel more like a real user—I get that too. But my current stop-loss is: run the process through + make sure the records are done properly, then stop; the rest is left to probability. Recently, everyone’s been comparing RWA and US Treasury yield to on-chain yield products. I find that pretty tempting as well, but the more grand the narrative gets, the more it reminds me not to treat practice as investment. I’ll apply the patch first—small fixes and tweaks are enough.