Seeing Professor Suo's post (@hellosuoha), I really miss that barbaric era. The project was rough around the edges back then, but the opportunity was real. Two E's went in, and 600 came out in three days; then I used it to work on @AstarNetwork, staking it for 1000 days, and in the end, the E's multiplied many times, and the airdrop returns were even more than the principal. I received 110,000 UNI tokens from an airdrop back then, and I still have 20,000 left. A good project is a good project; it survives several bull and bear markets, and after several rounds of market crashes, it can still stand on the table in the end. The world of martial arts has changed. The crypto is becoming increasingly capitalized. With layers of RWA, compliance, and institutional narratives piling up, there are fewer and fewer things for ordinary people to participate in, and the chances of actually making a profit are becoming increasingly slim. Every time I open X, it's either reposted videos or AI-generated fluff; it's either agent tutorials or scripts for achieving financial freedom. It looks exciting, but very few of them can actually make a profit. To earn that meager salary from Jack Ma, turning yourself into a content assembly line worker, bowing down to algorithms every day, is far less worthwhile than going back to Web2 and peacefully working as a screwdriver. The hardest thing in the crypto is never whether you dare to take the plunge. Instead, the dishes on the table become more and more exquisite, but the number of chopsticks decreases. Can you still tell who is really setting up a trap and who is just holding a plate and inviting you home for dinner?

That era may never return.

Not necessarily; you can never fully grasp the pulse of the times—it might emerge through other means, or perhaps not.