Recently, I keep seeing a bunch of PFPs being passed around and swapped again and again, along with all sorts of “membership benefits” and “brand co-building” that are packaged to look legitimate. To put it bluntly, long-term value might be there—but most of the time it’s more like a short-term attention game: when things are hot, you feel like you’ve joined a circle; when it cools down, all that’s left is the avatar.

I’ve also hit the brakes once with the mindset of “if you don’t understand it, don’t move yet.” At the time, a friend kept pushing a certain membership pass, saying there were points and that there were hints of an airdrop. I spent a long time looking it over, but I still couldn’t figure out where the actual benefits were coming in, or what the exit path was… In the end, I didn’t buy it. Later, that project changed its rules three times. And in the group, people asked every day, “Will they release tokens on the mainnet?”—I actually felt relieved.

Now, looking at this wave of testnet incentives and expected points, it’s way too easy for your emotions to get swept up. I still follow the gardener approach: keep what can produce steady output and where the risk exposure is clear; for anything you don’t understand, treat it like weeds first—don’t rush to uproot it or overgrow it.