From "Blockchain Beginner" to WEB3 Believer

On a summer night in 2021, I was still working in an internet company, and terms like "NFT" and "smart contract" sounded like a foreign language. When I followed the trend and bought my first cryptocurrency, I even copied the wallet address incorrectly three times. In the end, I watched the coin price plummet in half a month and stared at the red numbers in my account all night without sleep—that was my first taste of the "bitterness" of WEB3.

Later, unwilling to accept the loss, I started immersing myself in Discord communities, scrolling through historical messages, printing out white papers, and checking terms sentence by sentence. My notebook was filled with annotations on "public chain/side chain" even denser than my work notes. During the worst of the bear market in 2022, when my assets shrank by 80%, everyone around me advised me to "cut losses and exit," but I suddenly had an epiphany while researching a decentralized content platform: WEB3 allows creators to directly earn revenue without the platform taking a cut.

That night, I stayed up late writing my first popular science article,整理成指南. Now I can not only analyze project logic independently but also help more than twenty newcomers avoid scams. From barely being able to pronounce "decentralization" to firmly believing that it can reconstruct value distribution, those days of gritting my teeth to research information and holding on under pressure ultimately made me one of the most steadfast companions of WEB3.