Recently, I saw an activity where answering Christmas questions could earn you $10,000. The rules are simple, answers are everywhere, and you can fill out the answers in 5 minutes to get $5. Such fragmented earning activities are indeed common, just like many people in the crypto circle doing every day—grabbing small benefits everywhere, accumulating some minor income, but in the end, the account still fluctuates within that small oscillation range.

This made me start to reflect: are our time and energy truly worth such a return on investment?

Instead of spending five minutes on a one-time questionnaire, it's better to use the same amount of time to understand a mechanism that can generate continuous income. This is like the fundamental difference between working a job and running a business—one sells time based on quantity, the other builds a self-sustaining system. The former always has a clear ceiling, while the latter offers room for imagination.

This kind of thinking actually points to the increasingly popular real yield tracks in the crypto market in recent years. Don't be fooled by those inflated APYs; real yield is about protocols generating genuine profits through lending, stablecoin exchanges, fees, and other actual operations, then distributing those profits to token holders. This is not a false prosperity maintained by printing tokens, but real cash flow dividends.

Some projects have taken this idea quite thoroughly. The core logic is: not relying on massive incentives, but generating income through DeFi infrastructure (lending, stablecoins, etc.), allowing participants to truly share in the protocol's operational profits. On-chain transparent collateral assets and clear data flows are the foundation of trust. It's like owning shares in a continuously operating company with cash flow, rather than buying a long-term futures contract.

The same five minutes, the choice is yours.