Recently, another batch of pages about “doing tasks to earn points” has popped up. My first reaction isn’t to rush in and grind, but to check liquidity and routing first… To put it simply, in many cases you’re not mining—you’re feeding low-liquidity pools, and in the process you’re donating your own time as well.

I’m also pretty familiar with the whole new L1/L2 playbook for pulling TVL. As soon as the incentives go live, on-chain noise immediately explodes. As an old user, I can totally understand the complaints about “mining, buy, sell”—you grind away at verifying your identity and collecting badges, only to find that everyone is just waiting for the unlock moment to dump through the selling window. Points aren’t the same thing as ownership, and they’re definitely not the same as long-term benefits. If the rules change, it’s as if nothing happened.

Right now, I keep it simple: I only do the interactions I was always going to do. If the slippage/impact cost doesn’t make sense, then it doesn’t. If you miss it, you miss it—at least don’t turn yourself into a factory-line worker just for an icon. That’s it for now.