Earning rewards recently is really getting cutthroat. When you click in, you find the task list is even longer than the daily reports at work. You have to do interactive tasks, fill out forms, and write essays. They also have levels, and they even talk about “witch hunts” for screening. It feels like you’re submitting a job application. What I’m most afraid of missing isn’t the so-called chance to get wildly rich overnight, but rather that window of time where, if you just “honestly be an ordinary user,” you’ll still be remembered. Back then, if you just messed around casually, you could still get air-drop surprises. Now no matter where you go, they’re grading and rating you—sometimes even your wallet address could be judged as “not active enough.”

Anyway, for someone like me who’s slow and steady, I don’t think rushing helps. Just take it slowly and let it grow. Lately, the whole fight over NFT royalties has been pretty heated too. When liquidity in the secondary market cools off, creators can barely even get enough money for a meal. It’s genuinely a dilemma—too left and the market dies, too right and creators run off. I don’t know what everyone is going to choose.