Just ran into another pile of “XX chain interaction tutorials,” and my hand was reaching for the confirm button before I pulled back… Airdrops are the easiest thing to turn people into tools—being “anti-rekt” fodder. Plainly put, what you’re contributing is transaction fees plus attention; whether they even respond to you is anybody’s guess.

My approach is pretty “old-school”: first, think it through—do I actually want to use this project long-term (even if there’s no airdrop)? If not, don’t force the interaction. If you really are going to do it, do it in stages, with small amounts, and over a longer period—don’t fill up the whole path in one go. If that route is complicated, the resulting slippage plus MEV little tricks will get eyes on you. And for those that insist on using a particular aggregator/specified contract, check first whether it was just deployed and whether the permissions look weird—better to do it one time less.

Recently, someone started tying ETF fund flows, the risk appetite in the U.S. stock market, and crypto’s rise-and-fall into a single causal chain—sounds like it’ll get you fired up… Anyway, I’ll just keep one rule in mind: don’t use macro narratives as a reason to interact. Interact only because “I really need to use it”; otherwise, once FOMO hits, you’re basically handing out gas to other people. That’s it for now.