My journey in crypto began with ARB.

After experiencing 519, I was left holding a bunch of altcoins and was completely confused by the losses. So I started with ARB, managing to create around 70 accounts, and helped friends create 65 more. I am especially grateful to Danny and Tom. At that time, I sought their help to invest and I would do the work. They trusted me and put quite a bit of money in my hands. For me back then, it was like a timely help in the snow. Each account basically earned around 2000 ARB, with the least being 1125.
@wu48636254 @Cryptotom77 (these are their Twitter accounts)
At that time, I was also synchronously participating in W's cross-chain airdrop, along with some cross-chain bridge projects, including Space ID. However, having not experienced a complete bear market cycle, although I made some money during that wave, I also did many reckless operations.

For example, I made regular investments in Bitcoin during the bull market (buying too high), and bought a lot of NFTs that eventually went to zero, including: a Murakami bought for 9E, three Adidas bought for 1.8E, and an NFT worth 120,000 USD bought in GALA — including founder nodes and music nodes in the game.

I also participated in a shooting game on the Sol chain called MiniRoyal, continuously investing over 100,000 U, and bought over a thousand characters. Later, when the LUNA crash happened, along with the FTX and Three Arrows Capital blowup, most of my assets were lost, leaving only a few thousand U, plus a bit of BTC and ETH in a cold wallet.

In 2022-2023, I decided to continue grinding and exchanged all my money for ETH to start earning STRK. Initially, I created 400 accounts, and later helped friends create 600 more, with accounts added gradually. I also created 1000 ZkSync accounts at the same time; I wasn’t even graduated from university yet, everything was done manually.

Every day, besides eating, I would just click the mouse from morning until bedtime, and then continue the next day. Throughout, I followed Teacher Fengmi's stories for motivation, and on days when I didn't receive airdrops, I persisted by mentioning @KuiGas every day.

Counting both my own efforts and helping friends, I managed to acquire almost 200,000 STRK. This was the largest airdrop I received, worth about 500,000 USD at 2.6. Good fortune came in pairs, as W's airdrop soon followed. I checked the accounts I created in 2022, totaling around 110,000, which were also worth about 200,000 USD back then.

However, this round was quite painful because I was structured around airdrop coins and didn’t sell them at the first opportunity. Airdrops generally halved and dropped significantly, with STRK selling at 1.3 and W at 0.3. But I was lucky that at the end of May 2024, I resolved to exchange all the losing altcoins for BTC, which did not disappoint me and has risen back.

Subsequently, I partnered with a few good friends to mine stablecoins. Currently, the RMB part off-exchange, based on my living rhythm, has 500,000 each in China Merchants Bank and HSBC, and over 900,000 in WeBank, with living expenses prepared at a 150,000 baseline for myself.

I haven't meticulously calculated the funds in the crypto circle; they are mostly rolling in mining.

The reason I'm writing this at this point is that I'm afraid I will truly forget what I've been through on this journey. Moving forward, I just hope to stay true and not act out of the ordinary, maintaining a steady mindset — slow is fast.

The goal remains clear: to enter A9.