Many people are still struggling in Alpha, hanging on for seventeen minutes each day, wearing down two or three knives, only to end up with thirty dollars in airdrop. Doing the math makes it clear—if you can't get more than two projects in one cycle, then you're losing.

But this does not mean there are no more hairs. On the contrary, in the past three to four days, active addresses on Alpha have dropped by 40,000 to 50,000. It's not that people have left, but rather the hairs have moved.

The "mouths to lick" activity in the square has instead become a new mine. Take $ROBO for example, the airdrop only issued a few hundred coins, but the mouths to lick activity averages six hundred dollars per person—why? Because the project team has figured out the numbers: rather than maintaining a bunch of scripted accounts, it's better to invest money in creators who can produce real content.

What is ROBO based on? Simply put, it solves the problem of 'language barriers' in the robot community. The OM1 system equips robots from different brands with simultaneous interpretation, allowing them to collaborate in the same network—factory assembly lines, home vacuum cleaners, building inspections, all can be interconnected. In this ecosystem, it is hard currency, used for settling work, governance relies on it for voting, and its liquidity is what people depend on. Backed by top institutions and listed on several first-tier exchanges, it is basically an essential asset in the robotics field.

There’s something even more interesting: ROBO essentially gives each robot an ID card and a wallet. In the future, your home vacuum cleaner and your neighbor's lawnmower can take orders, work, and transfer money to each other within the same network, completely autonomously. ROBO is built on the Base chain, but its aim is to break down hardware barriers—using blockchain to solve the longstanding problem of 'mutual distrust among robots.' In simple terms, it means opening up a closed robotic ecosystem into a public network that anyone can participate in.

The industry isn't dead; it has simply shifted from the account nurturing track to the content track. Those with a keen sense have already changed pastures.