I just refreshed a round of the social mining points leaderboard, and I’m honestly a bit tired. To be real, those badges and identities—happy for five minutes the moment you get them, and then they’re gone. And you still have to keep grinding, otherwise your ranking will drop. Either way, I’ve been more佛-like lately; I’d rather save some gas to cross-chain and see what those modular chains are really up to.

Honestly, the whole modular blockchain thing—developers seem pretty excited. Things like the DA layer and data availability sampling. I skimmed a few whitepapers, and my head was spinning. But if you ask ordinary users, they’ll probably just say, “So what? Can it make my transfers faster?” Haha. To put it bluntly, the narrative feels a bit disconnected right now: the protocol is trying to build composability like a window of colorful combinations, while users only care about whether there are coins in their wallet.

I’m not saying you shouldn’t play with points, but don’t drain your time for that little bit of vanity. Before, I had an account where, to farm a certain DAO governance badge, I sat there for three days casting votes. In the end, the project team changed the rules, and the points just inflated straight away. Forget it. Now I’ll just be a curious observer, occasionally checking on-chain data. For example, yesterday in some contract interaction, there was an address that spent only 0.00001 ETH every time it minted—no idea if it’s a bot or if it was just a human slip.