Lately, I’ve been grinding testnet points, and it’s making me a little uneasy… I started out just practicing, but once my mind casually defaults to, “I’ll get an airdrop later,” my behavior stops listening. I stay up late, add to positions, and even my Gas fees—I don’t want to skimp on them. Basically, once expectations kick in, it becomes easy for my stop-loss to just go missing.

My stop-loss for myself is pretty “crude” too: first, set a limit on “how much time/fees I’m allowed to waste.” If I exceed it, stop for two days—don’t keep arguing with yourself. Then break the tasks into the smallest possible moves; if I don’t finish today, that’s fine. Don’t turn your emotions into a heart-rate monitor just to chase points. Anyway, this account of mine is for drawdown, not for stubbornly going all in and hardfighting.

Also, watching the NFT royalty drama play out—people arguing back and forth—feels pretty much the same. Creators want income, the secondary market wants liquidity, and everyone thinks they’re being reasonable, but in the end, it still comes down to who can withstand the moment when expectations don’t pan out. There are a lot of tutorials, but I personally prefer the ones that talk about failure cases and how to retreat. At least they’re a bit more friendly to someone like me who’s afraid of getting liquidated.