Recently I’ve been seeing the group chat spammed with people farming points and badges every day, and honestly, I feel pretty moved. Social mining, if you put it plainly, is basically asking you to trade your time for nothing. The project team takes your attention as data, and in the end gives you an identity badge—so then what? I don’t know how much real cash it can actually get you.

After the recent regulatory news about stablecoins came out, the group chat started spreading rumors again about reserve audits and de-pegging. Once the mood ramps up, people just keep forwarding back and forth. I don’t know who to trust, but I just feel that rather than obsessing over on-chain data and worrying, you should first think about whether the time you’re putting in is worth it.

Anyway, I’ve kind of figured it out for myself. Those badges, points, and identity ranks—plainly speaking—are a psychological game. The more you care, the more it can hold you hostage.

Let me ask myself: can that “contributor” you farmed up in hundreds of hours actually be cashed out in the end?
Most likely, no. But then you miss the things you should really be watching—like abnormal gas and the block-building cadence. Those are the real signals.

Forget it, I’ll stop here. Don’t drain your time for virtual identity—real money is the hard truth.