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I'm just someone who looks at lending pool data every day, and recently interacting with airdrops has been a bit exhausting: on one hand, worried about anti-sybil attacks, and on the other, afraid of missing out. My approach is pretty simple—first check if the project has real users (the health of the lending pool, whether liquidation works smoothly, whether interest rates don't spike suddenly or drop to zero), then decide whether to take action; interactions shouldn't be too "bot-like," fewer transactions but appearing like a normal user, with amounts controlled so that losing them wouldn't hurt. To put it plainly, airdrops are a matter of probability, not diligence.
These past couple of days, before and after the upgrade of that mainstream public chain, everyone in the group has been guessing whether the ecosystem will migrate. I instead rechecked the cross-chain, bridges, and authorization old pitfalls... When a chain moves, the first issues often aren't yields, but permissions and liquidity. Anyway, I now prefer to do fewer things rather than risk giving out wallet permissions out of FOMO. That's all for now.