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🎙️After getting the big results, what experiences do you think are worth sharing about getting rewards?
Rich:
I actually don’t like to throw around the term “valuable insights.” Because getting rewards is never just about copying a tutorial once to make big money. It is fundamentally a multidimensional combination of cognitive differences + information gaps + execution ability + mindset games.
If I really had to summarize any experience, I would say it in one sentence:
Do you believe because you see, or do you see because you believe?
Many people give up while trying, not because they don’t work hard, but because they can’t withstand the journey of “not seeing results.”
Airdrops are delayed, Gas continues to be invested, interactions are tedious and boring, tasks become increasingly formalized, points are becoming more rampant, and when the returns are delayed, doubt gradually erodes execution power, and complaints follow.
But the real big results are often hidden just behind the moments when you almost want to give up or almost think it’s ineffective to persist.
You must believe: results never happen first; they are believed first, and then they will materialize.
As Master Fish (@bitfish1) said: Wealth ultimately flows to those with a calm inner self!
Wealth ultimately flows to those with a calm inner self!
Wealth ultimately flows to those with a calm inner self!
Wealth ultimately flows to those with a calm inner self!
The following points are my personal true experiences:
1. Choosing the right project is more important than anything else.
Airdrops that can truly change your fate must come from projects with products, innovation, capital, and vision.
It can’t be compensated by participating in 100 low-quality activities. It’s better to invest heavily in 3 well-chosen ones than to scatter your efforts across 30 uncertain projects.
2. “Interaction ability” is the foundation, not the number of actions.
Many people only follow tutorials and copy routes; in the current competitive landscape, it’s not about how many trades you made, but whether you act like a real user.
If you want to truly reap the benefits, you must learn to understand the project party. You need to understand what kind of people the project party hopes to filter out, grasp the protocol logic, understand the protocol characteristics, and have a very clear overall view. The more you resemble a “real user” and adopt the “developer perspective,” the easier it will be for you to be included in high-quality weight distribution rules and reward models in the future.
3. Learn to give up, dare to focus, dare to invest heavily.
A mature rewards seeker isn’t about how much they get but about their judgment and decision-making ability, their ability to control risks and improve odds.
Not every project is worth following to the end; you need to cut losses decisively, invest heavily confidently, and let go cleanly.
4. Don’t get emotional with projects; talk about plans.
The biggest loss I’ve experienced this round was getting emotional.
Too many projects transition from testnet interactions to mainnet, and after issuing tokens, they hesitate to sell, only to be educated by the market.
The most rational operation is to formulate an execution plan, like a selling plan, and strictly follow it. At the same time, try to recover costs through diversified methods like DeFi as much as possible during Gas consumption, either by increasing the weight or earning back gas, prioritizing survival strategies.
5. Solidify a barbell strategy and maintain an arbitrage perspective.
Getting rewards has never been an isolated act; it is actually a typical structural arbitrage method throughout the entire crypto cycle.
You can think of getting rewards as stable income from the “left hand”: low cost, high odds, trading time for opportunities. At the same time, use the “right hand” to allocate positions in the secondary market, holding fundamental assets like BTC/ETH, or boldly betting on some long-term high-elasticity speculative projects like memes. The left side earns certainty while the right side gambles on uncertainty.
Having suffered many losses, currently, this is the combination approach I see as more stable and capable of traversing cycles.
Ultimately, getting rewards relies not just on actions but also on a long-term belief. You have to believe that this mechanism can indeed be monetized and continuously invest time and attention in it. When you develop on-chain capabilities through getting rewards, you may find you actually have alpha capabilities.
Someone asked how you view Binance Alpha + mouth rewards,
I’ve been drinking, let’s talk next time.
