Recently, I’ve been looking at the governance votes of several projects. The top addresses by vote count—just scroll down a bit—are all the same group of institutional wallets. Everyone grinds hard for points during airdrop season, but in the end, governance power still gets split among the same familiar faces.

I treat my positions like firewood, slowly adding to them, but sometimes when I look at on-chain data, it feels like making a fire in the mountains—you think you're adding fuel, but the air vent was already locked tight by someone else. The anti-sybil measures on task platforms get harsher, and real retail participants feel more like gig workers, while the oligarchs only get more stable.

Ah well, whatever. Not like my vote changes anything anyway. After I vote, I'll just go back to writing my journal.