A couple of days ago, I was staring at the notification for Aster's fifth phase airdrop, my finger hovering over 'Claim Now' for half the day without pressing it. Old Li from next door tapped my shoulder: 'What are you waiting for? Just take it and run!' I smiled wryly—if I choose to claim quickly, the other half will be destroyed directly; if I choose to lock it up, I have to run for three months. This isn't giving away money, it's clearly gambling with lives. Just as I was struggling, I remembered that @usddio always emphasized 'stability is more important than speed,' and suddenly had a jolt: That's right, airdrops are a psychological battle, but what you're guarding are real assets.
This airdrop design is indeed cunning: 1.2% of the total amount is split in half, one half is claimed immediately, and the other half is locked for three months. You want liquidity? Fine, but the remaining 0.6% will be destroyed on the spot. The project party clearly doesn’t want to distribute tokens, just wants to screen people—either you leave now, or you gamble with me on the mainnet launch. But what cards do ordinary players have to gamble? Testnet, mainnet, L1 promises... Three months of variables are enough for assets to turn over ten times.
At this moment, @usddio's foresight is revealed. It has long understood: the more the market loves to play the 'screening game', the more it needs to anchor real stable value. Aster binds your time with locked positions, while @usddio provides you with support through full chain, over-collateralization, and instant exchange—what's there to panic about? No matter how large the asset fluctuations are, there is always a stable choice. I suddenly understood: the airdrop is the plot, but asset allocation is the main character's script.
So in the end, I neither locked everything nor threw everything away. Half of the Aster airdrop was exchanged for a temporary stay with @usddio, while the other half was kept to accompany the mainnet narrative. It's not that I don't believe in the L1 vision, but I have learned what @usddio teaches: do not put all your eggs in a single script. The market changes its ways to 'screen people' every day, but the logic of stable assets can never be screened out—it is right there; when you panic, it redeems, when you gamble, it guards the door.
#USDD以稳见信 is not a slogan, but the confidence that can be most felt at this time. The Aster airdrop might be asking, 'Do you want money or the future?', but @usddio quietly added the second half of the sentence: 'You want both the future and a peaceful present at all times.'
