Lately I’ve been going back through my old interaction records again, and I realize that the whole “airdrops thing” is really a lot like wandering through an archive—or buying a lottery ticket: you think you’re doing homework, but a lot of the time you’re actually just trying to wrestle with your emotions. Now I do my best not to chase the “latest and hottest.” I start by checking whether the on-chain activity is from real people, whether the contracts have any weird permissions, and for cross-chain bridges that have just been hacked, I’d rather miss out than rush in. And with oracles that sometimes act up, when someone in the group yells “wait for confirmation,” I actually feel calmer—because it at least shows everyone isn’t getting swept up in hype all at once.

In plain terms, for interactions, I keep them small, in batches, and leave a trail—just enough to cover the basic use cases, and then I stop. I don’t rack up transactions, and I don’t dump my main holdings in either. Once you get hit by a reverse scam / get rekt back the way it goes, that’s enough to make you remember it for a long time.