Lately, I’ve been looking at a few blockchain game pools, and the more I look, the more they feel like that kind of “all-you-can-eat buffet with output set way too high”: at first, everyone lines up to grab, but later the plates pile up higher and higher, and the food actually gets worse instead… Once inflation kicks in, the reward tokens depreciate first. Players, desperate to break even, mine even harder—so the result is they drain the pool even faster. In plain terms, it’s trading the future for today’s excitement.

The incentive system on testnets is also a bit like that. Once the points are released, expectations fly off the charts. In the group chat, people spend every day guessing, “Will the mainnet issue tokens?”—and it pushes everyone to grind tasks, without really caring whether the economy can actually hold up. My mindset has basically updated with each version: before, I’d get an itch and want to try it, but now I care more about whether there’s an exit button, whether the rules are clearly written, and whether I can cut my losses. If I can, then I cut them—don’t let the pool collapse with you.