Sigh, lately I’ve been farming testnet points, and my mindset is getting a little weird. In the past, I just treated it purely as practice—running a node, interacting with a few contracts, and that was it, like getting familiar with a new protocol. But now, once I see the words “points redeemable,” my expectations rise on their own, like a hummingbird that smells nectar. Even knowing it might just be air, I still can’t help but flutter at it a couple more times.

Lately I’ve been pretty conflicted. The funding rate side has been extremely extreme. In the group, some people say it will reverse, others say it’ll keep squeezing the bubble. Both sides make sense, and it’s got me thinking too: for this testnet thing, should I also set a stop-loss for myself? For example, how much time to invest, how much gas cost to spend—once it reaches a threshold, withdraw, and don’t really turn “practice” into “expectation” to bet on.

Anyway, what I’m doing now is to set a time budget first, and when the time’s up, I stop farming. No matter how detailed the audit report is, it can’t stop me from getting carried away. A mindset stop-loss is more important than anything else.