Lately, earning testnet points feels a bit like doing questions: it was originally meant as practice, but once someone posts their “expectations,” my mindset instantly turns into wanting to cash out… I set a stop-loss for myself: I spend only two fixed time blocks each day—if I go over, I stop. If I need to constantly change RPCs, switch wallets, and sign a bunch of things I can’t make sense of, I just drop it—I don’t stick with it. Anyway, points aren’t money, but security incidents are real money.

And now everyone complains about validator income, MEV, and ordering fairness. Put simply, if you keep being diligent with interactions over there, your experience may ultimately be determined by the “ordering,” and the more you grind, the more it starts to resemble doing data work for someone else. Next time, I’ll be more inclined to choose tests with rules that are transparent and that allow you to verify your contributions, rather than just grinding for the number of times. How do you judge whether a testnet is “worth practicing” or just pure consumption?