✍️Year‑end summary for 2025, doing the right things with the right people
Actually it’s a bit of a review: I’ve stepped into basically every pitfall and missed every opportunity, but I managed to catch a ride on @Lighter_xyz at the very end of 2025, which I’ll write about later.
🌟Stick to being a holder, but a holder can end up being foolish
Anyone who saw me calling out @PolyhedraZK mid‑year knows that $ZKJ I got on last year and held into this year dropped from 3 U to 0.03 U 🤣, and the position was quite large – just buying on conviction.
I had a chance to cut losses then, but I kept believing, kept holding, and nothing happened.
In this version, the fate of all copy‑cat holders is pretty much the same – half a pound, half a kilo. This round taught me: cash out when you’re making money, cut the loss quickly when you’re in the red, and don’t think you can survive a 100× drop only to ride a 10 000× rally later.
Insider opportunities only appear when liquidity is at its best. I missed the real money‑making wave on many projects on @binance, and after that trying to pump the price was impossible.
🌟On‑chain I kept trying to eat everything in one go, and ended up becoming liquidity
This year I gathered a lot of “experience” on @base, but was able to cash out very little because everyone was trying to learn how to grab a 1 M pot, and the result was ugly.
Even the memecoin on #Ethereum had roughly a 0.5 M chance, but it never materialized and mostly ended in loss.
In the end it taught us that sometimes brainwashing turns you into liquidity yourself.
Of course I learned my lesson during #x402; the value I didn’t sell ended up being far higher than the capital I originally placed, and now I can only lie low.
🌟 @Aster_DEX underestimated @cz_binance’s willingness to pump
Back then $ASTER really felt like a savings‑account idea; I estimated that at around 0.2 I should have sold, which would have given roughly a 1 000 % profit.
When the market opened I looked and saw the front‑end frozen. Luckily the tech guys were smart and had prepared API keys for all accounts.
When asked how to act, I said just smash it, so I placed an order at 0.055, then at 0.066 – not sure who took it.
That’s where the story began; I now owe many people a few million and am repaying debts!
That night a friend shouted “buy back at 0.15 all‑in”, I said I’d check in the morning; it opened at 0.4 and I couldn’t pull the trigger.
So when a group member asked what to do when $ASTER fell to 0.7, I said I ran at 0.066 – and when you ask me what to do after a 1 000 % jump, I have no answer.
Later I decided to trust CZ and BINANCE, and bought 1 % of $PALU for 28 M, but the people disappeared again.
🌟Luckily I hit @Lighter_xyz at the end of the year, grateful to the people along the way 7/10/10
Just a number: 10 % of all addresses on the network contributed, the other 7 % and 10 % are indescribable.
There’s an interesting story: we were all working on @AbstractChain, then thought it too messy and switched projects, and @hebi555 became the first to proclaim 2025 as the year of perp‑DEX.
Anyone who participated knows that grabbing 15 % of weekly rewards is hard 😂, especially after taking several weeks in a row – you develop a “fear” of the project, so you start lowering the amount you farm. Those who have farmed know the worry that the team might just hand the project over to you.
In the end I persisted, mainly because of the people around me, not because of myself.
Whether it’s @hebi555 constantly shouting “keep going”, the silent grinder @crypto_laodong, or the builder @snow949494, you can see them constantly talking about @Lighter_xyz on the timeline.
Apply the phrase “have you ever seen Los Angeles at 4 am?”.
You might not know the 0‑1‑2‑…‑24‑hour journey of @Lighter_xyz over the past nine months, but @crypto_laodong helped reveal it.
His mindset is truly solid; he never pops champagne midway, after checking the witch round he prepares for the worst, yet the final result is great – I haven’t seen anything better around.
You should know that the week we started checking the “witch” we were still tweaking the strategy; if we could have kept it until TGE, we might have earned another few hundred thousand points 😂, but we were scared the project would turn out too savage.
a. The road so far has been tough!
Going from March to December was hard – whether the cost was 0.1 U vs off‑chain 3 U, then 0.4 U vs 30 U, later 3 U vs 100 U, I kept wanting to pull some principal out, even to compound.
But the result was nobody wanted a single‑collateral loan 🤣; I once thought of becoming an OTC myself, guaranteeing myself, but I got lazy and dropped it.
b. Things I did not do well!
When I had 100 U I wanted to off‑load some tokens, but worried that points and tokens weren’t linearly related, making settlement hard, and I didn’t have enough USDT as collateral. A friend suggested a few million, but the risk was too high – OTC is a black box.
Hedging was also an issue; when the contract opened pre‑market it was about 75 U per 0.01, I thought about a crash‑before‑open but didn’t dare, only got 55 U per 0.01.
c. Must improve next time!
Hope the next one is better; after 25 years, 26 year @hebi555’s Mr. He said Predict Market is a wind‑pipe.
And @0xsexybanana’s “princess” said the next is #Robotics – who knows?
🌟An interesting incident
In October I visited a very spiritual “temple”, drew a lot, and was told to stay honest and follow others, never decide on my own, only let others lift me.
The other lots’ lots combined said that $LIT in December would be something “exaggerated”.
Because I only had that one thing that could cause a “critical hit”, it turned into a “boomerang” 🪃 in December – sometimes you just have to trust 😁.
Next time I’ll pay more respects, learned the right incense‑offering posture from the temple folks 😂.
✍️Afterword
This article was supposed to be posted on the 31st, but many things weren’t settled and a lot of coins weren’t gathered, so I delayed.
Now I stay low‑key, waiting for the next A9 to let @crypto_laodong report his 12‑year “fur” haul 🫡.
Thanks aren’t needed; too many people to @, everything is in the rice, eat up 🍚!!!
