Recently, I saw new L1/L2 projects incentivizing TVL again, and old users in the group were complaining "mining, selling." I reacted pretty slowly... At first, I thought it was just normal activity, but then I realized that often the interaction cost is the real trap.

Now I set a very simple assumption for myself: airdrops are not "rewards for me," but "buy my on-chain behavior." So let's do the math: transaction fees + slippage + cross-chain costs back and forth + possibly being sniped (like MEV where someone conveniently takes a cut), if these add up to make me uncomfortable, I won't force the interaction. Another small habit: only use features I would normally use, like swapping tokens, lending, staking—don't click on a bunch of strange contracts just because "it might" give something, the risk of being front-run is too high.

Honestly, I’d rather miss out than FOMO into treating costs as air... I see myself as a slowpoke, if I get it, it’s luck; if not, I save on friction.