At the moment when my account balance was fixed at 2,000,000 U, I did not celebrate, but my fingers involuntarily began searching for 'how to convert profits into the most stable assets.'
On Tuesday afternoon, I casually placed a long order at the 0.0032 position of PTB while wandering around, with a capital of 26,000 U, purely to test the waters. The next 72 hours felt like a fast-forwarded magical movie.
PTB seemed to break free from gravity: I took profit at 0.006, bringing in 180,000 U; when it pulled back to 0.005, I entered again, and when it surged to 0.007, I took profit a second time, netting 870,000 U; sensing a trend change, I went short at 0.007, and a big bearish candle directly dropped to 0.0029, adding another 950,000 U to my account.
26,000 U turned into 2 million U. The community was flooded with my screenshots, and comments of congratulations, worship, and requests for guidance instantly surpassed 99+. However, a kind of unprecedented panic arrived even before the joy — do these numbers really belong to me?
After explosive profits: the carnival belongs to others, the fear is my own.
I stared at that string of numbers and for the first time understood what 'profit is just a number temporarily existing with you in the market' means. It can give me 2 million in one day but may take it all away the next. Aren't there plenty of stories of those who became rich overnight with a 'miracle item' only to go back to zero?
I scoured all the interviews of top traders and found a common point: they never boast about single profits but show how to retain profits. A quote from a big shot woke me up: 'Making money in a bull market is luck; being able to keep money in a bear market is skill. Your skill depends on how much 'cannot die' assets you hold.'
What is an asset that 'cannot die'? It must meet the following criteria: it does not fluctuate with any altcoin, does not disappear due to exchange downtime, and its value can be fully controlled by itself.
Searching for the 'ultimate safe haven': when volatility becomes the enemy, stability is the ally.
At this point, my gaze finally shifted away from those wildly fluctuating candlesticks to a field I once thought was 'too boring' — Decentralized USD.
Its logic is completely opposite to my PTB trading: I do not pursue it skyrocketing a hundred times, I only require that it never plummets. It does not tell an enticing wealth story; it only provides a cold mathematical promise: value anchored at 1 dollar, guaranteed by excess assets publicly on-chain.
Taking USDD as an example, I finally understood the other half of the smart money's operation in a bull market:
A transparent treasury against all 'black boxes': USDD uses on-chain over-collateralization. Behind each coin, more than 1 dollar worth of BTC, TRX, and other assets are locked in smart contracts, with addresses and quantities publicly available across the network, verifiable in real time. This means that the profits I exchange for USDD are not supported by any company's promises but by on-chain facts that anyone can verify. In a market filled with speculators and hidden agendas, this transparency itself is security.
The 'air' does not rely on any project: the surge of PTB depends on project parties, the market, and emotions. The value stabilization mechanism of USDD is guaranteed by a preset algorithm and decentralized community governance. It is not controlled by any single speculator, has no 'crash risk', and its stability is endogenous to the system.
The converter from 'profit' to 'permanent capital': when I exchanged part of the 2 million profit for USDD, I completed a key action: transforming the 'floating profits' obtained from high-risk speculation into low-risk, highly certain 'strategic reserve capital'. This portion of money has since detached from the bloody storms of the cryptocurrency world, becoming a trump card that I can call upon at any time in the future, and it will never devalue.
#USDD establishes your bank outside the casino.
So when everyone asks me 'what is the next miracle item', my answer is: I have found something more important than looking for the next miracle item — a method to prevent the wealth I have already acquired from dissipating.
I anchored part of my profits in USDD; this is not the end of the story, but the true beginning of investment. It gave me the following confidence:
Facing corrections calmly: when the market crashes, I no longer panic because I know that part of my assets remain intact.
Waiting for opportunities calmly: when the real golden pit appears, I hold stable 'ammunition' that I can strike with at any time, rather than being trapped with locked-up chips.
Surviving across cycles: regardless of bull or bear, this portion of assets steadily generates value (through stable returns within the ecosystem), allowing me to truly 'live longer'.
From 26,000 U to 2 million U is the gift the market gave me; while exchanging part of that gift for USDD is the security I gave myself. In the cryptocurrency world, making money may depend on opportunity and courage, but holding onto money always relies on knowledge and discipline. True freedom is not the infinite inflation of account numbers, but the possession of that 'regardless of rising or falling, I remain unshaken' composure.
