Staring at gas, just staring at gas in a daze, I suddenly remembered the testnet points. In the past, running testnets was just practice—now everyone treats it like an air-drop expectation. Once your mindset gets on that track, it changes. I’m actually pretty afraid of this kind of “practice turning into expectation.” After making a few transfers, you end up watching the settlement blocks; whether gas is high or low can just burn you up with anxiety. Anyway, I’ve set myself a soft stop-loss: if I don’t run enough, I stop. It’s not like holding real money in a wallet where you can stubbornly take the hit. In a blunt way, what I fear most isn’t losing—it’s losing control.

That said, I also find it pretty annoying lately how that whole pile of arguments over NFT royalties keeps going. Liquidity in the market is already kind of thin and messed up, and people still drag on about whether profit distribution is unreasonable. That twisted energy in the on-chain space is similar to points expectations: it always feels like something should be there, but you don’t know when it’ll hit zero.