#night $NIGHT 《The night I received the NIGHT airdrop, I was conflicted for two whole hours》

To be honest, when the Glacier Drop landed, I stared at the extra $NIGHT in my wallet, and my first reaction wasn’t "I’m rich," but rather "Should I hold onto this thing?".

240 billion coins were distributed, covering 8 chains, with a pretty sneaky threshold—if you had over $100 in assets in your wallet, you could claim it. What’s tough about this? It filtered out a large number of temporary shell addresses registered just to grab free stuff, leaving behind seasoned players who have genuinely dealt with real money on the chain. These people are not so easily fooled, but they’re not so easy to run away either.

I ended up not selling, not because I’m broad-minded, but because I realized one thing: Midnight never expected to retain users through this spike. Its follow-up is staking—$NIGHT sitting idle is just scrap metal, staking generates DUST, and DUST is the real fuel used for interaction in the ecosystem. If you want to use its privacy DeFi or identity verification, you have to stake; you have to lock it up.

In other words, this round of airdrop isn’t just throwing money; it’s about distributing "seed users." Compared to spending tens of millions on a trading competition to attract a bunch of bots, this move, although slower, is steadier. Looking back now, I was actually struggling for those two hours with an old mindset about new gameplay. Once I figured it out, I staked it, DUST accumulated slowly, what’s the rush?

True value is never created by rallies; it’s generated by users who stick around. @MidnightNetwork