Obvious airdrops = trading for points = dark pool ICOs It’s already 2025, and people are still grinding for trading points? Still don’t get the essence of it? Or are you just brainwashing yourself? Every point is part of the cost of buying tokens, and it’s calculated crystal clear. ‘Airdrops’ are just sugar-coated bait; project teams have a hundred ways to cut you. You hedge short, they pump the price out of nowhere, liquidating your short positions first. When you’re ready to use your points to exchange for tokens, they violently dump the price in advance. Token prices crash to new lows every day, and you panic-sell below cost. Once you’ve sold below your grinding cost, they pump the price again. Blockchain creates another miracle, but it has nothing to do with you anymore. The ‘dark pool ICO’ completes the full cycle of cutting retail investors: They pump up the volume, collect fees, and hype the valuation. They control the allocation, manipulate token prices, and draw their own charts. In the end, they even avoid jail time—it’s promoted by KOLs with affiliate commissions, voluntarily grinded by retail investors for airdrops, and the tokens are ‘fairly distributed.’ The most ironic part is that these projects barely have two real users outside of their farming groups. The future of blockchain will belong to projects with real use cases. The wild era of vaporware and trash tokens is already a thing of the past.