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1. "Xu hướng là người bạn của bạn" 📈🤝
Một lời nhắc nhở rằng theo hướng thị trường thường mang lại lợi nhuận cao hơn so với việc cố gắng dự đoán điểm đảo chiều.
2. "Mua tin đồn, bán tin tức" 📢💸📰
Các kỳ vọng thị trường thường ảnh hưởng đến giá cả nhiều hơn là các sự kiện thực tế.
3. "Đừng bắt con dao rơi" 🔪📉
Một cảnh báo chống lại việc mua các tài sản đang giảm giá nhanh chóng.
4. "Đa dạng hóa là bữa ăn miễn phí duy nhất trong đầu tư" 🍱💼📊
Việc đa dạng hóa rủi ro trên các tài sản khác nhau giúp giảm thiểu tổn thất.
5. "Thị trường có thể bất lý trong thời gian dài hơn bạn có thể duy trì khả năng thanh khoản" 🌀📉💸 — John Maynard Keynes

It all started in the most ordinary way.
A new token, WAL, was being actively discussed — airdrops, listings, the Sui ecosystem’s potential. The feed was full of phrases like “still early, but interesting.”

One user decided not to waste time.
He opened a DeFi interface,
selected the SUI → sWAL swap,entered $250,
saw the familiar word Swap — and clicked it.

Without properly checking:

the pool liquiditythe real execution pricethe allowed slippage, which was set high by default
⏱️ A few seconds of waiting — transaction confirmed.
The balance updated…And instead of the expected amount, he saw around $5.
Not a hack.
Not a rug pull.
Not a bug.
Just low liquidity + massive slippage that “ate” almost the entire amount.

In the comments, the user wrote briefly — but very accurately:

“I knew DeFi was risky. I just didn’t expect it to be this literal.”

📌 Why did this happen?
The pool had very low liquidityThe price in the interface looked fine before confirmationSlippage allowed the trade to go through even at a catastrophic rate
DeFi doesn’t ask: “Are you sure?”
DeFi simply executes the contract.

🔁 A similar story — but this time with a Binance-listed token
Many people experienced the same thing earlier with PEPE, which now trades on Binance.
During the peak of the hype:
users entered DEXs before centralized exchangesbought PEPE in small liquidity poolsand received 5–10x fewer tokens than they expected
Some lost 30–70% of their position purely due to slippage, thinking it was a “bad price,” when in reality it was just how DEX mechanics work.
The irony?
Later, PEPE was listed on Binance — with proper liquidity and a clear order book — but the money lost at the start never came back.

🧠 The main lesson that connects #walrus , PEPE, and hundreds of other tokens
A promising token ≠ a safe tradeAirdrops and listings ≠ no technical risksDeFi ≠ “click once and everything’s fine”
📉 In crypto, you can lose money not because you chose the wrong asset,

but because of one careless click.

🐋 Moral
In crypto, it’s not the fastest who win.
And not even the earliest.
Most often, the winners are those who:
✔️ look at liquidity✔️ read the numbers before confirming✔️ and trust the calculator more than the Swap button

$WAL reminded us of this.

$PEPE showed it earlier.

And the market will repeat this lesson more than once.

@Walrus 🦭/acc #story #fun #defi