The third time I watched the blockchain game pool go from “totally worth it” to “totally not,” the truth is still that inflation has slowly ground everyone’s mindset down. At the start, the rewards were handed out aggressively—everyone rushed in to mine. Selling pressure followed; once the coin price softened, they had to increase the output to stabilize things, and then it turned into even more inflation… In the end, what’s left in the pool isn’t players—it’s people waiting for someone else to take the bag.

Lately, that whole setup of AI Agents and automated trading has also started to squeeze into blockchain games. The storyline is hyped up pretty loudly, but what I care about most is which contracts it’s actually interacting with, and whether permissions are getting opened up incorrectly. Anyway, in my plan, I’ll write the stop-loss first: if the output is basically “printed” and consumption can’t keep up, don’t fantasize about “waiting for a bounce-back.” I’d rather miss the chance than stick with it all the way.