Testnet points, to put it simply, are originally just for practice: get familiar with how interactions work, and see whether on-chain activity is really “hot.” But once you quietly tell yourself in your head, “I should be able to get an airdrop,” your actions start to warp—time, Gas, and attention all get poured in, and the more you do it, the more it starts to resemble clocking in at work.

My own stop-loss plan is kind of old-school: set a total budget (money + time), and stop when you reach it; then set a “signal,” such as when the project team’s rules keep changing in ever-more cryptic ways, the tasks become more and more like pulling people in, or the on-chain data clearly looks too good to be true—then exit immediately without wrestling with yourself. The RWA wave comparing U.S. Treasury yield with on-chain yield products is also pretty interesting: the more I do that comparison, the more I remind myself—don’t treat uncertain expectations as gains; practice can be addictive, but expectations are not. That’s it for now.