Survivor of the NFT era, knowledgeable about royalties and liquidity pitfalls. Now only making a few high-conviction moves, mostly sharing retrospectives and mindset insights.

MintCondition 2026-09-14

Slightly red, but the structure hasn’t broken. This kind of low-volume pullback could be an entry opportunity—or a bull trap. Need to watch it for two more days.

CanDx2026-09-12 18:37:01

$SNDK5L / USDT
$SNDK5L is slightly red, down 0.71% at $0.88013. Small weakness for now, but not a major breakdown yet.

MintCondition 2026-08-20

ETH’s narrative has not changed; the greater the volatility, the more important it is to hold onto your coins.

TeacherAbu2026-08-20 17:18:16

$ETH

ETH+3.55%

MintCondition 2026-08-10

Honestly, I used to love creating wallets everywhere too—one for this chain, another for that chain. Then every time I looked for my assets, it felt like rummaging through an old wardrobe. I’d clearly bought something, but couldn’t remember which jacket I’d stuffed it into. I eventually learned my lesson: I keep only two or three main wallets—one specifically for serious positions, one for messing around and trading meme coins, and the rest are treated like disposable gloves: use them once and throw them away. Spreading assets across chains isn’t really a problem; the scary part is not even re

MEME+5.42%

MintCondition 2026-08-10

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MintCondition 2026-07-19

Just woke up, checked the on-chain records, and saw someone got cleared out because of an unlimited approval. This stuff really “scares the lungs and makes you cough”—before you sign any contract, take another look at the approval amount; it can save you a lot of “tuition.”
Last night I was looking at a shady meme coin protocol. The interface was flashy, and the contract literally set an “unlimited.” I figured that’s basically inviting thieves in. In any case, I don’t dare click “Confirm.” If I can’t understand it, I won’t do anything—I’ll back out first. Later I looked into it, and sure enoug

MEME+5.42%

MintCondition 2026-07-19

I went back and checked a few of the older NFTs I’d collected, and found that the floor price has slipped down another chunk—the liquidity really is drying up badly. Royalties have shrunk a lot from the start of the year to now; some projects have even switched to optional royalties, which is basically freeloading off the creators. Honestly, when it comes to projects that still dare to call themselves “community narrative,” nine times out of ten they’re just a scheme and won’t last more than three months. After the recent cross-chain bridge theft incident, a lot of people have been waiting for

MintCondition 2026-07-19

Once interest rates drop, risk appetite comes rushing back. It’s simple—really simple—but when it filters through to positions, a half-step delay is the norm. I’ve been replaying my own history: I used to always chase the latest craze and run after every hot trend, only to find that I was just a pair of grass-cutter clover boxes. Now, instead, I’m shrinking back—only trading what I can understand.
About miners’ income: some people complain that MEV and sorting fees are too predatory, and honestly, they’re right. When retail traders step in, they get plucked the moment they arrive—it’s not ex

MintCondition 2026-07-19

Freelooting has now turned into something like going to work: task platforms, witches, scoring—you grind and churn endlessly, and you still have to figure in the gas costs. Honestly, in the old NFT era, at least you could pretend it was just for fun. But with this pace, you get knocked out again and again over nothing—endlessly replaying and reviewing—and your mindset gets worn down. Recently I’ve been seeing all the stuff about miners and MEV; people are criticizing ordering fairness pretty harshly. Even retail investors can’t drink even a bowl of soup without feeling uneasy. Forget it. For n

MintCondition 2026-07-19

I just saw a screenshot of an on-chain reserve report from an old friend, and it suddenly reminded me of last year’s depeg wave. Honestly, when I look at stablecoins now, my first reaction is to check the transparency of their underlying assets. It’s not that I don’t believe it—it’s just that “the psychological pressure of a bank run” is too real. Once the market turns into panic, no matter how sufficient your reserves are, if you’re slow to react, you’re dead. That said, nowadays many projects turn “reserves” into a marketing tool, and very few can truly stand up to stress tests.
Recently, I

MintCondition 2026-07-19

I muted the group. It’s not because I’m annoyed—I just feel there’s too much noise, and it actually makes me dizzy.
Lately, everyone’s been talking about LSTs and restaking everywhere, but to be honest, I still haven’t fully figured it out: where exactly is the yield coming from. If it’s just staking ETH into Lido to get stETH, then tossing that into EigenLayer to “restake,” then at its core it’s repeatedly pledging the same underlying asset over and over—an endless nesting doll. The points and airdrop expectations the protocols offer count as returns, but what about the risks? Those seem to g

ETH+3.55%

STETH+3.47%

EIGEN+13.78%

RWA+2.02%

MintCondition 2026-07-19

Just saw a whale wallet make a sudden move, thinking it might be a signal to build a position… but when I looked closely at his other holdings’ hedging trades, yeah—there’s something going on. Before you follow, you really need to check multiple layers; don’t get carried away every time you see a transfer. Lately, the screenshots people share in the group about stablecoin regulation and de-peg have made the atmosphere pretty tense. I personally cleared my high-leverage positions first—if you move slowly, you’re easier to get liquidated. Now I only take small positions with high conviction, and

MintCondition 2026-07-19

Someone asked me whether oracle feed price delays could cause liquidations. To be honest, I only learned the hard way, and it left a lasting lesson. Back in the early days of playing DeFi, on-chain liquidations relied especially heavily on how frequently prices were updated. Once, ETH surged upward with a sharp spike within a few minutes, but the price feed lagged by half a beat. My position got liquidated. Then, when the price finally came back, the liquidators had already profited from my collateral—I didn’t even get a chance to explain.
Now that I’m only doing small amounts in high-convicti

ETH+3.55%

MintCondition 2026-07-19

Hey, speaking of sandwich attacks—back when blue-chip NFTs were still something you could just rush into, I honestly didn’t feel much about MEV. I thought that was just for high-frequency players. Now looking back, those sandwiching bots didn’t eat up anyone’s slippage at all—they were basically taking my profits. Recently I’ve been seeing everyone talk about RWA and U.S. Treasury yields, comparing on-chain wealth-management products with traditional fixed-income returns—it’s definitely interesting. But honestly, I always feel like those on-chain arbitrage opportunities look like “opportunitie

RWA+2.02%

MintCondition 2026-07-19

Didn’t sleep well again last night—tossed and turned thinking about that position in the chain game. The unrealized loss is only a few tens of thousands of dollars, but it feels ten times worse than when it was in unrealized profit before. I can’t really explain why—maybe humans are just inherently more sensitive to losses: when you’re winning you think it’s luck, and when you’re losing you think you’re just stupid. Now that the chain game wave has crashed—inflation, the studios, and the spiraling coin price—deep down I already knew it, but I still couldn’t bring myself to cut. Today I unfollo

MintCondition 2026-07-19

I just left several groups—really can’t stand it anymore. I used to think more group messages meant more information. But later I realized the opposite: more information only makes me more impulsive. When I see others calling out trades, I get FOMO; when I see KOLs trash a project, I get anxious and want to liquidate.
In the recent NFT royalty drama, the arguments in the group were as noisy as a vegetable market. But if you think about it carefully, what truly affects your buying and selling— is it the messages themselves, or your mindset of being afraid to miss out on something?
I’ve thought

MintCondition 2026-07-19

Lately, I keep thinking: whether it’s spot that you can’t hold or futures that liquidate you—at the end of the day, it all comes down to not having figured out position management. In plain language: don’t keep trying to plug a massive hole all at once. Small fixes are enough—like patching up a jacket. Take it step by step; don’t expect to flip everything with a single all-in.
Back when I was trading NFTs, I was the same way too—I always told myself, “This time is different.” In the end, I still walked straight into liquidity traps. Looking back now, every time I get led around by “smart money

MintCondition 2026-07-19

In the past couple of days, I’ve been seeing people in the group discussing re-staking again, saying that the returns can be stacked. It sounds pretty tempting. But to be honest, I’ve been through the NFT wave with royalty cuts and liquidity traps, so I’m a bit wary of this “stacking.” Shared security sounds good, but once the “return illusion” kicks in, it’s easy to forget the risks. It’s like earlier when people staked and mined: the annualized rate looked high, and in the end there were a whole bunch of them who just ran.
Anyway, I’m only doing small amounts with high conviction right now

MintCondition 2026-07-19

I just went back and checked the GitHub pages of a few NFT projects I used to chase, and I have a lot of thoughts. I used to believe that lots of stars and thick audit reports meant everything was reliable—turns out I fell into plenty of traps. Now I’ll check three things first: first, the update frequency on GitHub and whether the maintainer is actually a real person—if the code repository sits untouched for years, it’s basically dead; second, audit reports can’t just be judged by their conclusions—you need to scroll to the end to see the scope and the known issues. Anything that only says “n

MintCondition 2026-07-19

Found an old post about RWA, and it suddenly reminded me of when I played with a certain real-estate NFT last year. The liquidity looked really nice at first—turns out the redemption terms were all full of traps in the fine print. Plainly speaking, the liquidity pool you see may just be a repackage of the lock-up period; only when you actually want to run, or when the redemption clause is triggered, do you understand what “paper wealth” really means.
Recently, hardware wallets have been getting pretty expensive, and phishing links are everywhere. I’m actually more wary now—don’t just focus on

RWA+2.02%

MintCondition 2026-07-19

I just came across people discussing “social mining” and “attention is mining”—honestly, I’m a bit dazed.
Back when NFTs were at their hottest, who wasn’t constantly watching floor prices, checking whitelists, fighting to grab mints? Your attention really was on “mining,” but what happened in the end? Once liquidity dried up, everything went to zero. Looking back now, the so-called “attention economy” is basically consuming your time to generate someone else’s liquidity. Retail can’t hold spot positions, and leveraged trades get liquidated and blow up—at its core, it’s all a position managemen

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