The red envelope in the crypto world, it's really only one round.

By the time everyone on the streets and alleys starts shouting about it, you only realize to rush in? That’s not called eating meat, that’s called paying for others.

Remember the crazy years of airdrops? Projects like DYDX, ARB—you could casually interact and get tens of thousands of USDT. Some people really made billions from this trick. Now? The threshold has skyrocketed to absurd levels, every interaction is a PUA, gas fees are a mess, and in the end, you can’t even scrape a single hair.

The craze for inscriptions was the same. ORD I, SATS—just a few thousand USDT invested, and you could flip it to millions. When the hype peaked at the end of the year, everyone was discussing it everywhere, newcomers started buying on the secondary market. The result? Deeply trapped + questioning life, and it takes a long time to recover.

When the AI track first launched, everyone said it was a scam. WLD tenfold, FET twentyfold, ARKM thirtyfold. When you finally got convinced by the gains, you rushed in to buy, and then it’s days of doing nothing for two years.

During Meme season, on-chain myths of thousands of times returns spread everywhere. PEPE, WIF, BOME… a few hundred USDT can really turn into millions. Now? New coins open at zero, exit scams are more common than real opportunities, and the ceiling is tightly capped.

Do you understand the logic?

Every wave of opportunity is prepared for the earliest group of daredevils who are willing to "ride the fool’s car." By the time the whole world reacts, the game rules have already changed.

Why do those old veterans always miss out? Basically, experience has become a burden. Fear of rising too high, fear of a pullback, fear of history repeating itself—these worries are like shackles.

Some newbies, on the other hand, end up making money. Why? Because ignorance is fearless, daring to go all-in before consensus forms.

The money in the crypto world is always made during the cognitive gap. Once that chasm is filled, the opportunity is gone.

If you always lag behind, always catching the last wave—that’s not bad luck. It’s just that your ability to see the trend clearly is slower than the bubble’s expansion. It takes a month to understand an opportunity, but the bubble inflates in just a week. Once the time gap widens, you can only be left behind.

The key to the next wave of market movement is positioning. Some people are already laying out their plans.