From that spring afternoon in April 2025, as one of the earliest alpha old dogs, I casually brushed a few strokes and a coin was airdropped. At that moment, I thought it was just a small freebie, little did I know it became the starting point for all my all-nighters, averaging down, and selling blood.

In May, the points deduction mechanism was implemented, and I felt disheartened; in July, the 15-day zeroing felt like being chased by time; in September, the dynamic coefficient pushed the threshold to 230, and I was calculating formulas at four in the morning with shaky hands; in October, the ANOME airdrop landed, and the whole group was ecstatic, I almost cried out loud—proving that these past few months were not a joke. In November, the threshold was 245, in December the hunger games of point deduction every 5 minutes, and in February 2026, Alpha Box starting at 242... Each rule upgrade felt like a knife to the heart, countless brothers fell, I watched the group grow emptier, yet I still gritted my teeth to survive.

Today, March 1, 2026, nearly 11 months from the April launch, I looked at the 256 points, feeling a dull pain in my chest.

With less than a month to go, the 1-year anniversary of the airdrop is approaching. With gratitude and confusion, can the road continue?