The recent airdrops have indeed been quite confusing. Not participating means watching others farm, which feels uncomfortable; actually going for it, the small gains can't outweigh the time costs and on-chain wear and tear. Take the OOOO event, for example, which starts at 230 points, with a 15-point fee deducted first, and ends up with something worth twenty or thirty U.S. dollars—so is this a benefit or just working for free?

But recently I realized one thing. In the secondary market, we compete with speed, gamble on probabilities, and engage in internal competition to score points. Ultimately, we're all chasing a kind of "luck gift." But the truly valuable things in the crypto world are not actually here.

It's better to shift our perspective from "how to snatch airdrops" to "where is the infrastructure." Think about it—why does every DeFi protocol and trading competition rely on one thing—reliable price data? Without accurate, tamper-proof, real-time data inputs, how can your assets be fairly valued? How can trades be executed fairly? The foundation of the entire DeFi ecosystem is actually the oracle.

In this infrastructure field, there's a project called APRO quietly working behind the scenes. You can think of it as the "data anti-counterfeiting delivery team" of the crypto world. Its mission isn't to issue tokens or hype concepts, but to ensure that key data captured from the real world or on-chain—like price information—are not contaminated, delayed, or manipulated during transmission to the blockchain. It uses a decentralized network instead of relying on a single point—this is what infrastructure should look like. This is the direction worth pondering.