Recently I keep seeing posters for “double output” in blockchain game pools, and I started to get a stomach ache. To put it plainly, most pools aren’t being dragged down by hackers—they’re being inflated to death by inflation itself: token issuance is just too effortless, and the outputs are like a faucet left running. People who come in only want to scoop up the water faster, so the pool keeps getting emptier, leaving nothing behind but longer queues and lower confidence.

What’s even more funny is that developers are chatting up modularization and the DA-layer narrative with great enthusiasm, while on the user side people are still asking, “Where exactly do I click to claim today?”… The more grand the narrative, the more it feels like an alarm clock going off—but nothing actually gets you out of bed.

The thing I fear most isn’t losing money; it’s losing control: the rules can change at any time, and parameters can flip overnight. The calculations that still made sense yesterday become mystical nonsense today. Anyway, whenever I see “high output,” I treat it as a countdown—if I can leave, I will.