Recently helped a friend fix a stuck nonce, and while I was at it, I took a look at all those PFPs in his wallet. The floor price had already been cut in half, the community had gone silent, and all that was left was the “diamond hands” tag still congratulating itself.

Honestly, the points-based system of today isn’t much different from the old days of rushing for whitelist access—it’s all just trading time for an uncertain lottery. Airdrop season comes and goes, the crackdown on “anti-witch” behavior keeps getting stricter, and what used to be batch farming now requires real-person check-ins. It’s so competitive it feels like work, yet the returns are even thinner.

But sometimes, I still see people seriously building a membership system—not the kind that posts pictures to trick people out of money, but the kind that truly accumulates on-chain credit. That’s the kind I’m actually willing to take a closer look at, even though I don’t know whether it will ultimately work out.

Anyway, my standards haven’t changed: if I don’t understand a signature, I never click it, and nonces have to be arranged in order. As for everything else, we’ll see.