At two o'clock in the morning, I stared at the rolling chat in Discord:

"Next PEPE!" "100x base L2 confirmed!" "The scientists are in!"

With a twitch of my finger, I threw my last 6000U at the MEME coin codenamed FOXX. Three hours later, the project team shut down the Telegram group, and the floor price went to zero. That line 3.18 in the wallet screenshot felt like an epitaph carved on my tombstone. This was just the first layer of the new retail hell.

Second level: The 'Perfect Trap' of Contract Bureau

A certain 'blue chip ecosystem' project, with an audit report stamped with the badge of a well-known institution, and KOLs shouting, "The next ARB." I staked $100,000 to participate in the IDO. Two weeks later, the project team pulled all the staked tokens through a governance proposal loophole. Later, I discovered that the launch date of the audit agency's official website was actually three days later than the project's white paper—they were even too lazy to build a fake website in advance.

At that moment, I understood: the so-called trust in Web3 is nothing but a bet on whose lies are more expensive.

Ultimate Torture: AI-Level Information Pollution

When I bet all my hopes on a certain 'institution-backed' Layer 1, the nightmare truly began:

Twitter saw 100 impersonation accounts posting fake news about 'mainnet launch postponed', causing the coin price to flash crash by 30%; the official Discord was flooded with bots spamming 'buy the dip', and only after I increased my position did I realize that the trading volume in the screenshot was fabricated; even the GitHub code update link in the project weekly report pointed to a forged repository...

In this era, the sickle has evolved into an AI-driven three-dimensional meat grinder.

Blood Extracted Three Survival Rules

Use on-chain traces to verify all promises.

Check the project team's wallet: if 80% of the funds are used for CEX volume marketing (like continuous small transfers to Binance), immediately blacklist and monitor whale activities: are large holders collectively withdrawing to self-custody wallets? Often a precursor to a crash.

Build Noah's Ark in the torrent of emotions.

When the community is in a " frenzy of thousands", write scripts to automatically short the coin (like MASK skyrocketing 150% on the day of listing on the exchange before crashing). Use TradingView alert systems instead of adrenaline: breakout above the previous high + volume divergence = calm profit-taking signal.

Turn yourself into an 'anti-fragile virus'.

Use 10% of the capital that has gone to zero to buy low volatility arbitrage.

Document every scam experience into a smart contract vulnerability library, and let new projects pass the poison test first.

On the tombstone of new retail investors, it is always engraved with 'Next time to get rich', while the bullets of old hunters are forever fed to yesterday's selves.

I used to stumble alone in the dark; now the light is in my hands.

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