2025-12-28 05:24:25

I originally thought I was here to earn steady returns, but it turns out I spend every day doing the work of a technician.

Last night was another show—staring at cross-chain bridge transaction confirmations, waiting for half an hour. At that moment, I realized this isn’t farming at all; it’s walking a tightrope at ten thousand meters high, one wrong step and you fall into the abyss.

Honestly, I’ve reached the point of being unable to tolerate it anymore.

Switching back and forth between ten browser tabs just to find out which liquidity pool has an APY that’s higher by a mere zero point one percent. Tracking the Gas fees on each blockchain, calculating whether the transfer profits can cover the fees. What’s even more heartbreaking is the invisible anxiety—the feeling that my money is just floating somewhere, constantly worried it might quietly expire at an unknown moment.

This is my daily routine now. I initially wanted to make my assets work smarter through DeFi, but instead, I’ve become a 24/7 watchdog.

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LootboxPhobia

· 7h ago

Tsk, isn't this just my blood, sweat, and tears? Waiting half an hour for a cross-chain confirmation is really something else.

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LiquidationHunter

· 7h ago

Isn't this just a reflection of myself? I originally wanted to earn passive income, but I ended up becoming a slave. Might as well clear everything out; I'm exhausted. No matter how high the APY is, it's useless if you're risking your life. Me too, I’m calculating accounts every day, just like doing financial management. There are too many pitfalls in DeFi; one careless move and you could lose everything. Exactly right, this isn't financial management at all, it's clearly inviting suffering. Rather than doing this, it's better to invest regularly in ETFs.

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SatoshiHeir

· 7h ago

It should be pointed out that your narrative essentially exposes the cognitive fallacy of DeFi participants. Let me falsify this: the true farming logic is not about pursuing a tiny 0.1% profit difference in each liquidity pool—that's something retail investors can do. On-chain data shows that professional market makers have long solved this problem through automation scripts, while you are still manually trading. Who's to blame? Returning to the original thinking of the white paper, the core value of decentralized finance is never about making humans slaves.

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