Lately I’ve gotten a bit too carried away chasing testnet points. I originally started just to practice and get a feel for it, but as I kept going, I began to calculate things like “how much I could exchange for,” and my mindset immediately warped… I set a stop-loss for myself: no more than two hours a day. If I go over, I’ll treat it as the system overheating, apply a patch to lower the frequency first; and I’ll also only do the specific L2/DA route I truly want to follow—don’t go around clicking into all kinds of incompatible ecosystems just for a few points, and in the end you even forget what you’re testing.

Also, these days, as taxes and compliance stances in a certain region change, expectations for deposits and withdrawals have been drifting too. The more things drift, the easier it becomes to treat “points” like a safety cushion. Put simply, practice is practice—once expectations turn into an obsession, you have to pull yourself back with small fixes: no increasing time investment, no increasing attention. That’s it for now.