I’ve been refreshing my participation in airdrop interactions again, and the FOMO feeling hits the moment it pops up in my mind, so I quickly rein myself in… I’ve been educated before from playing with leverage; my biggest fear is, “the more you want to earn, the easier you are to get reverse-rugged.”

My current approach is pretty old-school: I treat the interaction budget as tuition fees, set it aside in a separate small position, and if it loses, don’t let it affect the main position’s curve; if I can use a smaller account, I do; if I can grant fewer authorizations, I keep it to a minimum; before signing, I look over the URL one more time—really, I’d rather be half a minute slower. When I see big on-chain transfers and hot-and-cold wallets at exchanges moving, and people start shouting, “smart money has arrived,” honestly I can’t make sense of that much drama. Sometimes it’s just doing arbitrage / internal rebalancing, and we end up imagining it as a kind of prophecy.

As for airdrops, if you want to take part, take part—but don’t treat “it might be” as “it must be.” My goal is simple right now: not to be reverse-rugged, and not to get myself wiped out… that’s it for now.