I’ve just come across another pile of stuff like “doing tasks to earn points = identity.” The interface is made to look pretty much like game achievements—I even almost got swept up myself. To put it plainly, points are just an attention funnel designed by someone else: you sign in day after day, repost, run on-chain interactions, and your time gets drained, and in the end you swap it all for a badge screenshot. Is it really worth it? It’s worth pausing and thinking about it.

This wave of attention “rotation” driven by memes and celebrity callouts is the same. When it’s hot, everyone looks like a prophet; when it cools down, all that’s left is the last person holding the baton. I need to be reminded: don’t treat “a sense of participation” as “an opportunity,” and definitely don’t treat “identity” as an asset. First, collect clues—see who on-chain is actually cashing things out. Taking it slow is fine.