Having been in the crypto market for so many years, I've come to realize a harsh truth—

The real opportunity to turn your life around only comes once in a lifetime. Want to replicate it? Not a chance.

Those who jump in late, just following the crowd, are basically destined to be the ones holding the bag for others.

Take the airdrop frenzy from 2020 to 2023, for example. Even now, people still regret missing out. Projects like DYDX, ARB, ENS—you could pick any one and easily multiply your investment several times over. If you were lucky, you could achieve financial freedom overnight. I have a buddy who went all in early and made nearly a hundred million from that wave.

But by the time most people realized and tried to get a piece of the action? Interaction costs had shot up more than tenfold, and project teams were setting all kinds of fancy barriers. In the end, people burned money and time, fed gas fees to miners for nothing, and walked away empty-handed.

The 2023 inscription craze was even crazier. When ORDI and SATS first appeared, hardly anyone paid attention. But those who bet early turned a few thousand USDT into millions—stories like that were everywhere.

By the end of the year, retail investors flooded in, thinking “I missed the airdrops, I can’t miss inscriptions too,” and went all in. What happened? Most people lost everything and started doubting their lives.

The AI sector plays out the same way.

At first, coins like WLD and FET were trashed as “scam projects.”