Binance Alpha does not provide you with Alpha, but rather transforms you into its Alpha.
Many people think this is a new starting point for extracting value, but I believe the underlying logic is far more complex than that.
The points system is not a reward, but rather a systematic tool for hierarchical categorization.
What does this mean? Once you start "completing tasks", "trading", and "accumulating points", you become a label, a sample, a user in the resource pool of the Binance data system.
You think you are earning Alpha,
but in fact, you are the Alpha itself.
Your trading behavior, asset retention, and interaction frequency will be precisely assessed, accurately extracted, and priced in tiers.
Thus,
those who seek Alpha ultimately become a part of the system that extracts Alpha value.
What is human mining MEV, what does it mean to financialize behavior, this is it.
In the AI era, everything is being quantified; Web3 has not escaped this either. Most of the time, you are not using the system, but the system is learning about you, predicting you, controlling you.
While you are "grabbing" the airdrops it offers, it is "grabbing" all your behavioral data and future liquidity expectations.
The hegemonic empire of finance does not rely on guns and cannons, but on precise modeling of user psychology, a system that you think you can win against, but can never truly win.