Two years ago I was farming 60+ protocols across 10 chains.
Some paid off like Etherfi and Kamino, while others flopped such as Stacks, Sei, Blast, and Injective.
The era of spreading capital thin and hoping for big airdrops is (clearly) over.
That makes life harder for smaller and less funded ecosystems.
Before, they could launch points campaigns and attract liquidity and attention.
Now they need real budgets for InfoFi platforms, KOLs campaigns on X, Echo/Legion/Kaito sales, and backdoor deals with 'vault managers' for TVL.
Monad just spent millions in airdrop bribes to make KOLs happy (and not FUD it later).
Without insider info (Tempo pre-deposits), it feels safer to join consensus trades than to farm niche dApps you hope will get hype before TGE.
That’s why consensus trades feel safer: Plasma, MegaETH sale,
$ZEC, top perp DEXes like Lighter and edgeX, and prediction markets.
These are where attention and liquidity already flow.
The edge is not in farming more, but in filtering better.
Sadly, it's a lot of work and I got lazier over the years lol.