Bottom cash flow, frequent safety accidents, has the wool industry come to an end?

"What's the future for masturbators?"

The market has gradually become more and more calm and terrifying, except for long-term sideways trading and sudden skyrocketing and plummeting. As for the "hair-rollers", it has been more than 5 months since the end of the last wave of HP-style airdrops (ARB). For issues such as the proportion of airdrops, the voice of "anti-rolling" in the community is far greater than the voice of "making money". For the studio, the investment is far greater than the return. Many studios even began to suspend their business because of the extremely low income within half a year. Even go out of business.

Comments such as "the threshold for masturbation has become higher, you can't make money, and it's not friendly to retail investors" can be seen everywhere, and some people in the encryption industry also believe that the masturbation industry has come to an end. So what kind of problems are the current Lu Mao studios facing? In the future, will the way out for plucking hair still be the operation mode of "black slave" factories?

Bottom cash flow

Many studios did get good profits on the last Damao ARB, but it has been more than 5 months, during which Lumao Studio spent a lot of money on interaction, such as technical funds, labor costs, Expenses such as scientific tools, especially for a studio with a large number of people, cost a lot of money for a few months.

The King of Hair Studio

In fact, after the ARB airdrop, most of the users who received the airdrop in the community were posting their profits, which sparked a wave of "airdrop craze" and brought many people in the industry into the loop. According to the rules and standards of the ARB airdrop, users only need Dozens of dollars can earn a return of at least more than 800 dollars or even thousands of dollars. For studios, the benefits are even greater. Each person is assigned dozens of hundreds of accounts, and each account has thousands of dollars in airdrop rewards. And in a bear market, most people's consensus on currency speculation is "you can make money if you don't lose money." , Many people also started a trip to Lumao Studio, many Lumao groups appeared, project interaction tutorials are everywhere on social media, and ARB’s airdrop craze lasted for more than 3 months.

There are more studios, more people, more tutorials, and more wallet addresses. For a project with a clear airdrop, what should I do to get the next big hair?

In the case of little difference in interactive tutorials, for the studio, apart from the large number of people and professionalism, the only advantage it has is "plus plus coins, large amount of funds, large amount of LP, and be a boutique account", with ARB as the For example, the greater the cross-chain amount, the more times of interaction and other criteria, the more rewards you will get. Of course, the airdrop standards for each project are slightly different, but the reference standards for most projects are, large-amount cross-chain, Swap, LP, and NFT for tasks.

The problem also lies in this. Since everyone tends to interact with large amounts of money and do LP boutique accounts, it will be difficult to persist if the funds cannot be used after a long time, the project will not send airdrops, and the studio will not be able to make ends meet. For example, many people started working on StarkNet and zkSync a year ago, but over the past year, they have been "PUA" by the project side for insisting on masturbation. They have to do it without seeing returns in the short term. It can be said that ARB has increased Everyone's expectation of getting rich through airdrops, the studio has raised the threshold for getting rich.

In addition, there are some instrument tools for viewing interactive rankings. Enter the address to view the overall ranking of your wallet on a project, which to a certain extent increases the pressure on users.

All of this confirms that the wool industry, which used to be a short-term investment, has gradually become more and more difficult. But in addition to users, the project side also decides the amount of airdrops. Why do users not feel like "earning money" after the project side issued airdrops in the past few months?

The project side’s stingy airdrop

When it comes to the recent airdrops, I have to talk about the two projects SEI and CYBER.

First of all, let’s talk about Sei. As an L1 with a financing level of tens of millions, the proportion of airdrops is only 3%. A brand-new "cross-chain" airdrop requires users to hold an EVM address that meets their conditions, create a Sei wallet, and carry out the cross-chain of the specified token. After the cross-chain, a certain number of SEI tokens will be airdropped. When the airdrop rules were just disclosed , many people began to use eligible wallets to cross-chain, but the problem is that some people cross-chain 500 U and get 200 SEI, while some people cross-chain 20,000 U and only get 400 SEI airdrops.

Generally speaking, the SEI air investment qualifications and standards are actually suitable for the accounts of Lumao Studio, but only suitable for active accounts that have done large-scale cross-chain transactions. Many active accounts of many studios belong to small-fund interactions, so the final The rate of return is not very high, and compared with ARB, it is "a world of difference".

The second is CyberConnect’s first airdrop rules and standards. CyberConnect’s airdrop tokens accounted for 2.4% of the total, which is also a relatively small airdrop share. Users are eligible to receive Mystery Box, The Shards, Mini Shards, and W 3 ST , CyberProfile Premium Handle, CyberProfile Early Adopter NFT. But after the rules came down, many users said that Cyber was not friendly to early experiencers, and it was just a wave of "little hair".

Generally speaking, the airdrop rules of several recent project parties have changed too quickly and the shares are too small, but they are also very "PUA". The per capita income is high, so this is also one of the problems Lumao Studio is facing. There are more and more methods and tasks for project interaction, whether to do all or part of it. Doing all of it requires too much investment of time, energy and assets. The result may not be as large as the airdrop income of only some users. This type of airdrop interaction is not very suitable for Lumao Studio to make money.

"Maybe you've been doing Odyssey missions for a long time and haven't paid a dime, or maybe you haven't specifically farmed items but brought some rewards."

Therefore, the current pessimistic sentiments of most maomao parties are: first, the cost of studio operation requires more energy and assets; second, the airdrop standard of the project party changes too quickly and it is difficult to adapt to the existing tutorials on the market , and the share of token airdropped by the project party is getting smaller and smaller.

Lumao Studio also fell into a more difficult situation for a short time. In order to survive, what other methods of monetization does the studio have besides Lumao?

How does the studio monetize

Since there is no big return for masturbation for the time being, and the studio has to survive, how should they realize it? BlockBeats understands that even without airdrops, studios will also carry out, and some studios will also participate in the design of some hair-raising tools for the public, such as helping users purchase "script" hair-raising, and paying to join the group to participate in game play It can also help some users "in and out of gold". Probably, users provide the funds needed for masturbation/gold making, and studios provide technology, tutorials, communities and other kinds of help. This is also the way some studios monetize when the market is not good.

Lumao studios have no short-term income or low income, which will lead to liquidity problems, suspension or closure of the available assets of the studio. Then, how do the existing Lumao studios operate and realize their profits? BlockBeats asked some Lumao studios The members of Mao Studio have learned about some of the monetization methods of Mao Studio in the current market, as follows:

Project masturbation cycle becomes longer, and the studio transforms into a service "tool"

With the market problems and the indecision of the project party, the profit cycle of Lumao Studio has become longer and longer. Lumao Studio A said: "For example, the airdrop I received recently is SEI, but I probably interact with SEI. It took 9 months to invest in Gas and occupy funds before finally making a profit. Therefore, in this long cycle, the studio invested a lot of costs and Gas, but there was no income in these 9 months, so Some studios that treat Sei as a big hair will eventually suspend or collapse."

Under such circumstances, many studios have transformed from "do-it-yourself" to user-service businesses, such as selling IP, maintaining accounts, and doing KYC for users.

Of course, there are also many people who have transformed into tool services, such as background management tools for large households and institutions that control wallets in batches, to obtain income from information flow.

In addition, script linting is also a popular tool in the market. Script linting is divided into two categories, one is more basic and suitable for ordinary users; the other is advanced version, suitable for skilled users. basic user groups. Of course, running these scripts requires recharging a type of "points", and users can interact through the scripts only after purchasing points. ; Another way is to purchase the script once. In short, users who want to use scripts to masturbate need a certain technical background. Users have to install some programming environments themselves, and the threshold is relatively high. But there are also some problems. For example, some browser scripts interact on the contract across the front end, but most of these interactions will be judged as invalid by the project.

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Selling Courses + After Sales

The course-selling service of hair-raising is also very simple. In fact, it is a paid group similar to speculating in coins. After spending money to join the group, the group will provide user operation tutorials and precautionary documents. It will help determine whether the user completes the interaction normally, and will also help solve the problem when the user encounters a problem. The advantage of this type of service is security, and the service provider and the user do not involve other privacy contacts.

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B, the person in charge of Lumao Studio, said that there are actually many such teaching services on the market, but the quality of the tutorials is uneven. For example, the courses for a certain large project only have one or two DEX swap interactions (30 days About 3 times), as mentioned above, the current status of interaction involves a large amount of money, but such low-quality courses do not require the amount of interaction (about 10 U, 100 U), but it takes several thousand yuan to join the group. Therefore, users have to determine which course-selling service is of high quality, otherwise they will fall into the situation of being "repulsed".

Game Gold

In addition to masturbation, the studio will also launch some game gold-making tasks, such as the previous StepN, the recently popular HV-MTL mech game, or Matr 1 x FIRE. The studio will also guide paying users to purchase NFT hit gold.

It can even help people who are interested in the game but don't know much about buying cryptocurrencies to deposit.

The above are some of the monetization methods of the existing lumao studios in the market other than airdrops.

The cash flow problem has been solved, and a bigger problem has emerged - "security and privacy". If the previous SEI and CYBER were the "causes" that caused people to badmouth the wool industry, then security and privacy are the long-term factors that affect the survival of the wool industry. contradiction.

Safety accidents occur frequently

Security and privacy are also a very important point in the winter of hair-raising. Security and privacy have always been a topic of concern to people in the currency circle, especially for the Lumao Party, who have hundreds of wallets in their hands, among which mnemonic words, private key storage, and address confidentiality all require a strong sense of security. Click here Fake links, authorizing people to enter projects without revoke, storing mnemonic phrases and private keys on platforms that include cloud services, and even being reported as witches after exposing too many wallet addresses. These are all security issues faced by the Lumao Party. question. In short, it is a very important topic for multi-account masturbators to keep their addresses safe. It is not easy to masturbate, and the money has been stolen. Once the assets are lost, "not your keys, not your crypto".

Existing tools in the market such as ADS browser, bit browser, etc., a platform can be expanded to hundreds or thousands of IPs, and it is also a multi-number interaction tool commonly used by studios, but such tools are often due to caching data or other The cache of the class has been stolen.

The beginning and end of the Bit Browser incident

The biggest recent impact on the Lu Mao Party is that Bit Browser cache data was hacked and most user assets were stolen.

Let’s briefly talk about this type of tools. Bit Browser and ADS Browser may be the most commonly used multi-IP isolation browsers for masturbators with multiple accounts. Each account contains multiple browsers with different IP addresses, which are isolated from each other and do not affect each other. , it is also an effective hair grooming tool to avoid being identified as a witch, which greatly improves the smoothness and efficiency of multi-account project interaction. But the problem is that this type of platform can store data, upload it to the cloud and save it like an ordinary chrome browser, which also brings great convenience to hackers.

After Bitbrowser data was used by hackers, many social media KOLs also began to count the number of affected people and stolen accounts. It can be seen that most of the users’ wallet assets have been transferred by others. 0x AA stated on social media that a single user’s maximum stolen 60,000 u Assets, a total of 3000+ wallets were stolen, and for a while the community seemed to be in the doomsday of "black slaves going to the rooftops".

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After the theft incident, many people also spontaneously organized rights protection activities in the group, and Bit Browser also responded, suggesting that users with unstolen assets transfer their assets safely. Regarding the theft incident, Bit Browser suspected that it might be WPS remote vulnerabilities, and called on everyone to report the case and apply to freeze the MetaMask wallet involving user assets, and then was wildly criticized by the Lu Mao Party.

Since then, some users have analyzed that when Bit Browser was updated to the latest version, a synchronization plug-in application data was added (previously there was only a synchronization plug-in). This wallet theft is most likely attributed to the updated synchronization data function.

Therefore, with the endless security issues and the data privacy issues of the platforms used, it has become a pain in the hearts of the Lumao Party. They spend money to buy tools and withdraw coins to each wallet. In the end, the wallet and money are gone, and the tool method cannot be used. out of compensation. Faced with this situation, the hair-raising studio can only be forced to accept it, and cannot tell the pain.

Encryption KOL haotian also posted: "Some 100,000 U has been stolen from Luer and has the idea of committing suicide, but the instigator, Bitbrowser, appeals to everyone to find MetaMask to freeze assets; sad and absurd, a pair of real but embarrassing terry To illustrate, the hair-raising users invested in all kinds of "arms" to fight against witches, but they never thought that these weapons would destroy their own nests before they could achieve fruitful results."

As of the time of publication, SlowMist stated that it has helped users successfully intercept some of the stolen funds from Bit Browser and is waiting for the application to be successfully filed.

BlockBeats would like to remind everyone that there are certain risks in using every hair-raising tool. For example, the ADS browser has a history of saving data. You must check whether the cloud synchronization function of your computer and browser is turned on. The safest way to save private data is The method of keys and mnemonics is still hand-written off-grid; in addition, for some early projects, you can choose to use a newly created wallet to experience it, or remember to revoke when you use it; when you see some more attractive social media links, you must first check Whether the account is authentic or not, do not click on any link on the Internet rashly; finally, protect your wallet address and do not expose it to other users to prevent malicious reports.

Luxuriate your hair to welcome the "tool age"?

Although we are currently in this unfriendly environment for hairdressing, everyone has lost some trust in hairdressing tools. With too many and messy hairdressing tools, many people will look for new safe and reliable hairdressing tools. Recommended, BlockBeats discovered a new product called bilulu, tried it and interviewed its person in charge.

Bilulu interface

**BlockBeats:**You may have heard of the recent incident of wallet assets being stolen from Bit Browser users, so how does bilulu protect user security?

C: At present, our product bilulu can already install the chrome plug-in. First of all, for some retail investors who are interested in the tutorial, we will not have access to the private keys of the customer's wallet, so there is no possibility of stealing or doing evil in our products; secondly, for institutions, we will launch a service to provide local Deploy and install a "castrated" version of MetaMask. This type of MetaMask is more secure. If you want to export this kind of wallet private key, you need to enter the password again (increased permission management) in addition to the normal process. For example, if a studio member wants Exporting your own wallet private key also requires the studio owner to enter a password before completing the operation.

Compared with AdsPower, we have canceled cloud services and only have local services. The studio owner controls everything. Our system does not have access to this privacy. The Bit Browser theft incident was because Bit Browser turned on "synchronization plug-in application data" The function, according to them, is that the server has been hacked, and the hacker can basically use the data to instantly unlock the customer's corresponding wallet. But all our services are on the user's own computer, and we cannot obtain any data on the system, ensuring the user's security.

In summary, our application does not involve cloud services. After the user purchases, only local services are available. Users can set their own key management permissions. In the future, we will even tend to transfer such key permissions to AA (account abstraction). Directional design, users can also set more complex and secure management rules, such as multi-signature management, where users decide their own risks and risk aggregation.

**BlockBeats: What are the highlights of bilulu?

**C: **First of all, our tutorials are updated in real time. We will select the more mainstream projects (with huge financing, some internal information, and personal airdrop experience) to interact with the project ecology and integrate them into our plug-ins. , it is not a static tutorial to reduce the possibility of being "retaliated against"; in addition, we will also provide users with a hair-raising insurance. Specifically, we will set up an open and transparent hair-raising insurance pool (on the chain). If the user determines that they used our tutorials and products to shave their hair, but did not gain any benefit in the end, we will fully compensate the user for the fees and gas consumed. If there are remaining assets in the pool after the compensation is paid, we will distribute these assets as bilulu airdrops to users who have purchased insurance and received airdrops.

For another example, Starknet Quantum Leap's 24-hour mint activity, which has been in full swing for the past day, is also called a "witch hunt activity" by some people. However, the bilulu application can avoid third parties collecting relevant data through user browsers during interactions, and can avoid address Dropped by a witch.

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BlockBeats: For new users, is the operation process of bilulu easy to use?

**C:**bilulu’s products are divided into two categories, one is courses (local hair pulling), and the other is robots for hair lifting. For local masturbation users, the plug-in can be connected to the user. After the user connects to the wallet, the webpage of the masturbation task will automatically appear when the user clicks, and the next task can only be opened after completing the previous task as required, similar to that for novices A very friendly course for the fluffing party.

With the update of the project, in the future, the technical cost required for linting will gradually exceed the labor cost, and it will gradually break away from the "black slave factory" mechanism. Some inspiration from the project side.

Is the Mao Mao Party valuable?

Finally, I have always held a negative attitude towards the topic of whether the Lumao industry has come to an end. Lumao and the project party are not paying unilaterally. The strength of Lumao Studio can even support a project and a chain for its ecology Bringing prosperity, but in fact, if the project is really doing well, Lu Mao is only a "participant" in the early stage of the project, and even some projects will still be welcomed by the Lu Mao party after the airdrop.

In fact, there are two views on the issue of "anti-rolling" after some projects are airdropped. One is the "Matthew Effect" caused by the superimposition of layers of shouting on social media. For example, a certain KOL shouted how much he paid and how much he got, but the problem is Most of the KOLs involved in masturbation have more than one address, and the interaction between users and KOLs is also slightly different. When you see others shouting against masturbation, you have to reflect on how much you have paid. Have you really interacted with this project? Therefore, the information on the Internet is somewhat misleading to users.

Second, if you are in a high-quality stroking studio, they may have contact with some project parties, and they probably know which projects are cost-effective. They will only interact with projects with low cost-effectiveness. It is very important to choose to reject some projects that are more difficult to obtain. And if you already have some experience in masturbation, your own judgment is also very important. To distinguish the "PUA" of the project party and the authenticity of social media propaganda, everything is subject to the official. Of course, there are indeed situations where some project parties are "unstructured". For example, Connext, a cross-chain protocol that is widely discussed today, announced that the community will be rewarded for reporting witches. , truly achieved a 360-degree reporting address with no dead ends. For example, in the previous Hop, whether such protocols are worth interacting with requires in-depth understanding to make a judgment.

The project party needs support in the early stage, but the early supporters are likely to become loyal fans in the middle and late stages. For example, for Arbitrum and Optimism, Lumao Studio got the air investment property, and the project got traffic and TVL. After the airdrop, cross-chain activities, Many high-quality project interactions are still on these two chains, and the two ecosystems are still prosperous until now. Therefore, in the face of the safety issues of tools, people and wallets, we must calm down when facing the stinginess of the project party, and stick to it. Lumping used to be a short-term investment, and it may be a long-term investment in the future.