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To be honest, I wrestled with the whole grid trading versus DCA thing for quite a while. I used to go all-in too, thinking that since I was going to hold anyway, what difference did buying earlier or later make? Then came those days when the market was heading downward, and I genuinely couldn’t sleep at night. I kept my phone by the bed and would want to check it whenever I woke up in the middle of the night. My whole state of mind was off. Could I not hold? Actually, I could—but it was mentally exhausting.
Later, I got more disciplined and started using DCA: investing a fixed amount each week

To be honest, I’m a little embarrassed to admit this, but I chased a new coin last night. I had actually checked the contract before buying—no issues with the permissions, and the lock-up looked reasonable. And yet, I still lost money.
It wasn’t the kind of loss caused by FUD; I simply placed the order too carelessly. The coin’s liquidity was mediocre to begin with, and I was in a hurry to buy, so I slammed in the order directly. The execution price was nearly two percentage points away from the displayed price. I didn’t pay much attention at the time, thinking that a few tenths of a point wou

Recently I was chatting with a friend about position management. In short, it’s one sentence: **Don’t let any single position get so big that you can’t sleep.**
Holding spot is hard because you always think, “I’ll sell after it goes up a bit more,” and then when it drops you panic. Trading perpetuals and getting liquidated is because you already know you should set a stop-loss, but you always want to “hold on a bit longer and it’ll come back to break even.” In reality, it’s greed and wishful thinking fighting each other.
Lately, new L1/L2 networks have been rolling out incentives to pull T

When I was just organizing my notes, my eyes were sore to the point of pain, and my neck was stiff too. You said that the less time you spend watching the charts, the more physically tired you feel—how weird is that?
When we talk about cross-chain bridges, someone previously asked me whether IBC is the safest. Actually, IBC’s logic is fairly clean, but the truth is you have to trust the validator nodes and the relayers—maybe the relay chain too? In any case, there are a lot of components across which you need to place trust for cross-chain transfers, and every step in the message propagation p

I just looked through a few DAO voting proposals and noticed that some of them, on the surface, are offering incentives to the community, but underneath there’s a pretty subtle power structure. In short, it comes down to who controls the proposal right and the veto power, and also those whale investors who delegate their votes—one sentence from them could shift the direction.
I’m also thinking: maybe we shouldn’t just look at the surface numbers. We should dig into the underlying design—for example, whether voting is weighted based on lock-up duration, or whether there are voting-threshold det

Lately, when I look into projects, I’m used to first checking the treasury spending and the status of milestone completion. Put simply, whether the team is actually doing serious work—where the money is going and how the progress bar is moving—is a lot more reliable than what’s described as lofty visions in the whitepaper.
With some projects, the testnet incentives are distributed pretty diligently, and the points expectations are also getting hyped up like crazy. Then everyone starts guessing whether the mainnet will issue tokens. But honestly, if most of the money in the treasury gets poured

Recently, some friends asked me how to tell whether a project is actually reliable—especially those that come with piles of contract addresses and audit reports that just make your head spin. I’m not a god-level expert, so I’ll just share the approach I’ve gotten used to.
First, look at GitHub. Don’t look at how pretty the code is—check whether the commit history is consistent and whether anyone is actively maintaining it. If the team can’t even be bothered to update GitHub, then the contract is likely being left alone, which usually means high risk. Then there are the audit reports. Don’t jus

Earlier I chatted with a friend about sandwich trading, and he said it’s on-chain jungle law. I think it’s more like playing “who steps on the mine first.” You watch that tiny price spread and rush in—then they anticipate your anticipation of their anticipation, and you end up trapped in the middle. You think you’re making money, but really you’re paying fees for someone else. Especially when gas is low these days, I’d rather slow down a couple steps than chase that little unrealized profit; after all, having funds sitting in the balance is better than getting sandwiched.
When it comes to NFT

Honestly, I’ve been getting a bit too hooked on farming testnet points lately. Back when I was just doing it as practice, I’d just click around casually. But now that new projects are going live, my first reaction is, “How much can I get out of this run?” But if I calm down, that mindset is actually pretty dangerous—after all, the testnet isn’t real money, but the time and effort you put in are real. If one day the project team suddenly changes the rules, or even shuts it down outright, then all that “practice” beforehand really would be wasted.
Recently, isn’t there extra tax in a certain reg

I just looked at the treasury spending records of a few projects, and they’re pretty interesting. Some people think that if a project team is spending big money, it must have something going for it, but I feel like it really comes down to “how” they spend it.
I previously looked at one project that burned a few million dollars in half a year, but the money was all poured into marketing and lavish offline meetups, while development progress crawled like a snail. Another project pays in small amounts, frequently, and everything goes to audit firms and protocol development engineers; the on-chain

These days I’ve been sorting wallets, and I’ve got seven or eight chains on hand—my assets are scattered in tiny pieces. Every time I reconcile, I want to smash the screen 🙃
Honestly, I’ve slowly gotten used to it: first, categorize by main chain. Then use an aggregator wallet that supports multiple chains, and also make my own spreadsheet to record what each address is used for (keep/holding, interaction, testing—separated). At least when something goes wrong, I won’t be in a panic.
Recently I’ve been seeing news about tax increases in a certain region, and discussions around tighter com

After slowing down and taking a look around, the issue of royalties in the secondary market is flaring up again. Honestly, I really understand creators, but what I’m more worried about is that kind of extreme, one-size-fits-all emotion. With rate-cut expectations repeatedly swinging back and forth—and the U.S. dollar index and risk assets rising and falling together—people tend to panic. Once people panic, they’re likely to mix up contract permissions and the royalty mechanism. I’ve been thinking: maybe we should move half a beat more slowly? The essence of a royalty dispute is the allocation

Lately I’ve been thinking again about whether grid trading or DCA is really better for sleeping. Just go all in—when funding rates get extremely volatile, I end up tossing and turning at night, constantly checking my phone, watching friends argue about whether there’ll be a reversal or whether the bubble will keep getting squeezed. My heart races the whole time. Grid trading or dollar-cost averaging may be slow, but at least I can close my eyes. If it drops, I just add gradually; if it rises, I scale out in batches. I won’t wake up one day to find my position is gone. People like me who set up

I just finished translating a DAO governance proposal, and the section on permissions and incentives is pretty deep—I almost fell asleep… Honestly, many proposals look like they’re about democratic voting, but the underlying power structure is pretty subtle. For example, if voting power is delegated, and the delegate has close ties to the project team, then the whole vote is basically just a formality. Incentives can also hide issues: some proposals reward early supporters, but if the vesting period is too short or the lock-up conditions are too loose, then at heart it’s just paying big holder

Lately, whenever the market rises, I also keep seeing a lot of people bring up stablecoin supply numbers, saying things like “capital is coming in” or “ETF inflows = the bull market has started.” Honestly, it’s kind of interesting—sometimes stablecoin issuance and price fluctuations just happen to line up, so don’t treat everything as a causal chain. Buying ETFs off-exchange and buying stablecoins on-chain are two separate pools—don’t mix them in the same story.
As for on-chain gaming, I’m genuinely frustrated: inflation models, studios pumping volume, prices spiraling downward—it’s exhausting

Recently, I’ve been going back and forth between the mainnet and L2, and honestly it’s pretty cumbersome. The mainnet gas fees are basically “send a reward and it’s gone.” When you hit periods of heavy activity like NFT minting or DeFi interactions, the little balance in your wallet just doesn’t last. L2, though, really does feel better—click a few times to confirm, and the gas fees are so low they’re negligible. The only downsides are that cross-chain bridge transfers can be a bit slow, and sometimes you run into situations where the bridge gets frozen, which always makes me feel a little une

Just saw a screenshot in the group chat of people transferring stablecoins that de-peg. A bunch of people panicked again. Honestly, once this kind of emotion hits, gas immediately spikes. I’m also an old hand—whenever I see this kind of news, I always check the reserves audit report myself first. Don’t just look at screenshots other people share and then run with it.
As for the choice between L2 and the mainnet, this is how I compromise day to day: for small amounts and frequent actions (like interacting and claiming airdrops), I go with L2—it really saves a lot of gas. But if it involves a la

Recently I’ve been looking at on-chain spending records for a few projects, and I have mixed feelings. The moment rumors about stablecoin depegging came out, the group chat started repeatedly forwarding screenshots of reserve audits, and the emotions kept swinging.
I set a rule for myself: to judge whether the project team is truly doing anything, don’t just listen to what they say about milestones—first check where the treasury multi-sig addresses’ funds are flowing. If the spending records are regularly paying the developer team, paying the audit company, or deploying contract upgrades that

Today the coffee cooled down unusually fast; while staring at the charts, my hand slipped and I spilled coffee onto the keyboard 😅. It reminded me of the bundle talk with block builders in the group the other day—lots of people said, “Retail traders can’t possibly understand it, so why bother?” Honestly, I think knowing roughly is enough: know that it can front-run and cut in line, but don’t go around assuming you’re getting “MEV targeted” every time. Most of the time, whatever small orders retail has still isn’t enough for them to chew through; if you do get eaten, it’s usually due to extrem

I set rules for myself: when I look at a project, I just keep my eyes on two things to see whether the project team is really doing serious work—treasury spending and milestone payouts. Put simply, it’s whether the plans they say they’ll do actually get finished at the stated time points, and where the money really went.
Lately, all kinds of RWA, US bond yield narratives, and on-chain products have been lined up side by side for comparison. Honestly, looking at it too much makes you feel dizzy. But I think, no matter what concepts people are blowing up out there, in the end you still have to s