Today: 2025.12.14
Profit-seeking Notes
Guide to Empty Investment On-chain and Off-chain
Recently, at the beginning of December, whether it's Binance's alpha or some projects launched on-chain, the overall revenue is still somewhat lacking compared to November and October. It's already been half a month! However, last week plus this week, the returns from Alpha, along with a new WET listing, have been pretty good overall 👍. Also, on-chain PEPRS and the prediction market track should honestly be the main direction for profit-seeking on-chain in the next six months or so 🧭. For profit-seeking, this is also another model! Speaking of which, my recent views on profit-seeking.
In the past few years, some people have been harvesting A8A9 on-chain, while others have been using it to support their families. This year, some people have relied on Alpha to buy a house, while others have not made a single cent from Alpha, much like retail investors who, regardless of the stock market, futures, or crypto circles, lose money in both bear and bull markets 💰! This reflects everyone’s execution ability and understanding. Nevertheless, harvesting has always been the easiest way for ordinary people to transcend class boundaries, across various Web3 tracks. It can yield benefits for the next decade that cannot be compared to anything else, due to the speed of wealth transformation, rotation, and wealth capture in this circle. A single tweet can mark the beginning of wealth and loss! No industry comes closer to wealth than this circle! It is indeed a relatively good opportunity for capital accumulation.
While 2025 may not be as golden as the earlier years of harvesting, with single numbers in the thousands of US dollars, there are still many new friends privately messaging to try harvesting. On-chain and off-chain, harvesting is evolving, and I only share some of my insights.
This is a simple introductory guide, hoping to provide some help to friends who want to try harvesting.
1: Understanding harvesting, why harvest?
The essence of harvesting is to earn marketing expenses used by project parties or exchanges for attracting new users, promoting activity, cold starts, etc.
From the initial UNI airdrop to now, harvesting has gone through a cycle in the crypto world, becoming increasingly complex and difficult to profit from is a consensus. It is undeniable that retail investors are unlikely to get rich through harvesting; this is only suitable for earning capital or supplementing income.
there are still opportunities to accumulate capital here.
Even in 2025, there will still be large waves like HYPE WAL emerging. Opportunities may be decreasing and diversifying. Unless you plan to industrialize harvesting through a studio, there are some uncertainties. Therefore, I now basically only share projects after a series of team research rather than casually analyzing and doing them. This not only wastes a lot of time but also, as a studio, we cannot engage in every single project; this is unrealistic. Instead, we focus on key projects, as Fengmi said, being bold in investment to achieve significant results. This is something we approach one project at a time, and this year we've also secured some projects exceeding six figures.
However, no matter how things change, I believe that future opportunities will still be on-chain. Let me briefly share my thoughts.
First of all, compared to trading on Cex's secondary market,
Harvesting will continually engage you with new opportunities. Inscriptions, memes, and NFTs are opportunities that come from on-chain interactions. Learning to participate in on-chain interactions allows you to constantly encounter the latest opportunities.
On-chain represents the future of this circle. Wallets are the entry point to Web3, and the new wealth effects in the crypto world are increasingly becoming on-chain. Engaging with new tracks aligns with trends, and harvesting is also a continuous learning process.
I only share some simple insights retail investors have about harvesting, which may be very incomplete; just absorb the parts that are useful to you.
I roughly categorize harvesting into several types: on-chain wallet cultivation, task platforms, social airdrops, exchange activities, ambassadors, and community administrators.
Harvesting is hard work. If you want to make money by harvesting, you have to invest time, gas costs, and a lot of time and effort to learn and practice. That's why I've always said that harvesting is essentially a decentralized process: the more you invest, the more you will ultimately gain. This is currently the easiest way for ordinary people to transcend class boundaries, without exception. Because you don't need to build relationships here; regardless of who you are, as long as you can persist, learn more, evolve, and believe that when opportunities arise, you will definitely achieve results. Lastly, I want to say again that harvesting is something that our young people must do in this era, and we must learn and understand it. The crypto world will never lack opportunities; what’s lacking is execution power. Let's get started!
