Crypto does not favor people with stable inner cores, but it will reward them
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Crypto does not favor people with stable inner cores, but it will reward them
This is not a race against others, but a process of dialogue with time and with oneself.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: jenniekusu
Another historic liquidation day, which to most ordinary people is just an unremarkable Saturday.
This is also a typical day in the Crypto world: when our attention is completely consumed by the endless stream of information on Twitter and pop-up alerts from exchange apps, everything else in the world seems irrelevant to our current emotions.
We are being tightly gripped by dopamine from this highly volatile market.
People plunge from the illusion of becoming A8 to the reality of zero within five minutes, then reignite their determination amid FOMO triggered by the next "buy-the-dip" tweet.
The cycle of price swings itself has become a form of entertainment—a melodramatic thriller co-directed by influencers and manipulators—while we’re merely spectators enjoying the drama, only to find even our hand cream has been wiped away.
"Rationality," "patience," and "long-termism" almost seem out of place here.
Most people don’t lack the desire to embody these traits; rather, faced with every massive price fluctuation, rationality loses to instant gratification, patience succumbs to anxiety, and long-termism falls prey to short-term stimuli.
People like us, who are internally stable, are described as the deadliest mid-curve—wanting to get rich quick through Crypto but unwilling to stay up late monitoring charts.
So the question is: how do we reach the other shore?
1/ Understand that the gods made here are beyond ordinary
Crypto is a place where gods are both created and destroyed. Those standing on the altar yesterday may be forgotten by the market today.
But everyone who has truly "made it" shares certain common traits.
From $TRUMP to the recent $Binance Life, Chinese leaders (@hexiecs @0xSunNFT @brc20niubi @0xcryptowizard @CryptoDevinL @yuyue_chris etc.) have not only achieved significant results but are also reshaping the industry’s liquidity distribution. Most critically, they constantly write post-mortems—an infinitely improving version of themselves.
This daily refinement stems from using time others spend playing or sleeping to grow incrementally. When opportunities arise, they can instantly recognize “this one’s about to surge” and dare to place big bets.
Behind this so-called “good luck” lies years of practice, trial and error, post-analysis, and accumulated experience—the intuition forged after countless stumbles in the mud.
Everyone wants to become a god, but not everyone can. The difference between ordinary people and gods lies in whether one can align knowledge with action, continuously learn and improve, rebuild oneself from scratch, and confront human weaknesses. Even those determined to become gods often fade into obscurity during sleepless nights or vanish due to leveraged contract blowups they couldn't resist.
But there's no need to idolize gods. When we realize not everyone has that luck, what matters more is discerning what under their halo can be learned and practiced—such as narrative identification, information flow processing, risk-bearing structures—and what requires time, resources, and barriers to entry, such as relationship networks and traffic leverage.
It’s precisely because the industry has many wizard-like learners and practitioners that single-token miracles and high-schooler successes keep happening, endlessly expanding the god-making pool.
2/ Walk along the riverbank regularly, wet your shoes to feel the water temperature
Just watching from the shore is useless. To understand how this industry operates, you must jump into the water.
Crypto narrative trends change too fast, requiring us—no matter what we do—to stay close to the market’s pulse, sensing shifts in sentiment, capital, and narratives. Being disconnected from frontline information slows down judgment and reaction, causing us to miss the brightest moments of the feast.
For project founders and product entrepreneurs, exemplary figures include @heyibinance @DrPayFi. Adopting a customer-service mindset and being willing to get hands dirty earns broad trust and is essential for staying at the table long-term. Founders who treat technology as sacred and isolate themselves from external developments often lead their teams into dead ends. By the time they realize a pivot is needed, they discover they’ve missed none of the pitfalls. In contrast, founders committed to addressing user concerns, detecting market changes, and updating outdated beliefs emerge when the tide rises and continue evolving when it recedes.
For employees, whether developers or marketers, either deeply embed yourself as a project ambassador spreading gradually (e.g., @MaraCakeHotSale), or while earning stable income(s) expand connections and build personal brands (e.g., @Ru7Longcrypto). This way, you not only grasp how to launch ventures here but also proactively establish communication channels of varying scales. With slight diligence and extroversion, the leverage of influence can yield unexpectedly high returns.
As community contributors, KOLs, or airdrop hunters, knowing which narratives and projects are trending and actively participating in potential interactions already means half the battle is won. The rest requires deeper research, sharper judgment, or even access to more covert underwater intelligence to secure your rewards. Thanks to Crypto’s borderless nature, people worldwide can participate in global projects. This symbiotic growth ensures part of the benefits will inevitably flow to them, explaining why so many agencies and studios exist to carve up the banquet.
Even as a regular retail investor seeking suitable investment opportunities, you must frequently engage in various group chats and channels. Otherwise, by the time you hear news via mainstream media, sorry—you’ve become exit liquidity.
Therefore, regularly “wetting your shoes” isn’t just about accessing short-term wealth creation in high-liquidity zones. More importantly, it helps identify your ecological niche:
I realized I might not be good at trading, but I’m skilled at storytelling. So I took an operations role helping projects grow narratively and amplify impact. Through this job, I connected with more peers and partners, built my personal brand, evolved into a content-creating KOL, consistently produced high-quality content to help more projects grow, thereby unlocking greater collaboration and early investment opportunities, advancing into core industry player status, gaining access to richer resources, and eventually connecting more players.
Exemplary cases include @mdzzi as a core figure in the Perp DEX space, @LeotheHorseman in InfoFi and prediction markets, @silverfang88 in abstract line-jumping tweets, @snow949494 @mscryptojiayi @dov_wo in the agency track, and @rubywxt1 @starzqeth in deep-investment-research Chinese podcasts.
Thus, even newcomers like me who’ve only spent two or three years in the industry without completing a full major cycle can rapidly gain perspective shifts and asset accumulation unmatched by other fields.
3/ Seek and build self-sustaining positive feedback loops
Recently read in an article: "Assets equal identity." In society, the way one acquires identity aligns with how one holds assets.
Crypto assets naturally place us in a free nation where we are fully responsible for ourselves. In a sense, this reminds us that Crypto’s ultimate test isn’t “how to make quick money,” but “how not to be destroyed by volatility.”
During extreme fear or greed, people often say “survive.” Asset size determines the floor of one’s lifestyle, but mental structure defines its ceiling. If happiness entirely depends on asset fluctuations, life will swing violently like a K-line.
Those who truly live “comfortably,” whether veterans or newbies, derive positive feedback not solely from prices, but from compounding gains in growth, connections, creation, and cognition.
Reading tweets from @ClaraChengGo and @wsjack22 resonates deeply—these are core questions I’ve pondered since entering the industry.
Over the past three years, having fully experienced the journey of a Crypto startup from 0 to 1, I’ve gradually built my own positive feedback structure within this industry:
Because I enjoy “creation” and “connection,” I use content and business development to generate income and opportunities. Because I value “sharing” and “helping others,” I use communities and events to build consensus and unity.
Meanwhile, because the industry’s “virtualness” often brings “nihilism,” I seek “solidity” in real life, making endeavors outside Crypto especially important.
Whether spending time with family, gathering with close friends, going outdoor sports, or taking spontaneous trips, what Crypto offers is precisely freedom in time and space.
Even if I haven’t earned (nor lost) life-changing money yet, finding a sustainable, comfortable work-life rhythm here means congratulations—you’re already doing great.
Crypto does not favor those with stable cores. It favors emotional surges, narrative reversals, and sparks of speculation.
It took me two or three years to gradually accept this fact and understand: this isn’t a race against others, but a dialogue with time and with myself.
I may never become a god or a god-maker, and might miss countless chances to get rich overnight; but I’ve found my ecological niche here, built my own positive feedback system, and made life more creative and freer.
I’ve stopped obsessing over “outperforming whom,” focusing instead on “how far I can go.”
If Crypto is a turbulent river, those with stable cores may not swim fastest, but they steadily reach the other shore at their own pace.
And time will ultimately reward them.
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