I’ve been doing too many interactions lately, and I’m really starting to feel like “not losing is winning.” Some people rush into new projects like they’re picking up money: gas burned to dozens of dollars, and then within a couple of days the team just runs away, or the expected primary sale turns into a secondary drop—once the tokens unlock, it’s a sell-off. My mindset has changed now. Before I tap “Approve transaction,” I ask myself first: is this interaction actually worth my gas and the two-month opportunity cost? If I run into something where even the whitepaper can’t be understood or copied properly, I just skip it—don’t feel bad about the dozen-plus interactions you already did.

On a side note, these past couple of days I’ve seen ETF fund flows and US stock risk appetite being discussed together, and the crypto market seems to be wobbling along with the Nasdaq. Anyway, my current strategy is: when the broader environment isn’t stable, I only focus on interacting with a few top L2s and L1s that are highly certain and have major funding. The rest of the scattered interactions are like buying lottery tickets—don’t get emotional and go all-in.

If I can only keep one habit: strictly record every transaction’s gas and time.