I'm not very good at chasing those “testnet points must be exchanged for money” storylines, but I recently found that once you treat practice as expectation, it’s easy to get hooked. Originally, it was just a few interactions to get familiar with the process, but then I started burning the candle at both ends—staying up late to grind tasks, adding funds to buy tools, and even being willing to pay mainnet transaction fees… Basically, at this point, I need to set a stop-loss for myself.

My approach is pretty simple: first set an upper limit on the “maximum time/fees” I’m willing to put in—once it’s reached, I stop. Then set a “latest deadline”: if there’s still no progress after that, I treat the practice as over and won’t add anything further. Recently, there’s been a mainstream public chain upgrade/maintenance, and everyone’s speculating whether the ecosystem will migrate, so I definitely don’t want to treat points as certainty anymore. Watching big on-chain transfers is lively, but that doesn’t mean anything is actually cashed out. That’s it—time to eat breakfast.