This round of airdrop season feels a bit like clocking in at work. The task platform keeps rolling out layers of anti-sybil measures, and it ends up making people more and more nervous. My approach is kind of old-school, but it works: I only interact with the protocols I genuinely plan to use, and I don’t spin up a bunch of new addresses just for “possible points.”

To put it plainly, the two things anti-detection (anti-scam) efforts fear most are: giving permissions randomly and burning Gas carelessly. Before every signature, I check whether it’s for an “authorization limit” or for “spending.” If there’s a limit, I set a limit. For contracts I don’t recognize, I’d rather miss out than risk over-approving.

And don’t keep your assets sitting in pools just to grind for points. If the fee rate isn’t enough, or if volatility causes big, unpredictable losses, it’ll educate you the hard way. When FOMO kicks in, I set a maximum budget for myself—spend what I plan to and then stop. That’s it for now.