# Don’t just focus on points: the real highlights of these 3 early projects today
Today we’re looking at **Rialo, Axis Robotics, and Nowa Finance**: one just opened its points entry, one has clear deadlines and public allocation rules, and one has just started cracking down on multi-wallet volume farming in a meaningful way.
What’s worth looking at now isn’t whether there are “more points,” but whether the new rules still give regular users a verifiable, sustainable way to participate.
The biggest risk is also very specific: misreading the official points as guaranteed rewards, batch-farming volume for ranking, or linking your main wallet on a counterfeit page.
## Rialo: The new points entry is already open, but the subsequent tasks haven’t been released yet.
**One-sentence highlight:** Points go live on August 21. Your first login and wallet connection will earn 20 Points. Early contributors and existing community roles will also be traceably recognized. This is a low-threshold placeholder node—not a token promise.
**Why now:** The official has just turned “community identity” into a recordable points system, and also previewed the return of Agent Grand Prix and Rialo Predict. The value of the current window is to verify that identity, points, and traceability are correct—not to guess the exchange rate in advance.
**Metrics worth tracking:**
- Whether 20 Points arrive normally, and whether historical roles are recognized;
- Whether subsequent tasks require real product interactions rather than purely social actions;
- Whether the official clearly states the purpose of the points, the scope of traceability, and anti-sybil standards.
**Pitfalls I will avoid:** I won’t add capital interaction to points rewards that haven’t been announced. I won’t enter the “claim points” page via search ads or DMs, and I will never submit a seed phrase or grant high-privilege authorization.
## Axis Robotics: This is not a posting contest—it’s “content quality × effective product contribution”
**One-sentence highlight:** Katalyst Epoch 1 is live, ending September 18 at 12:00 UTC. The official disclosed that this plan corresponds to 0.25% of the total supply, but rankings are accumulated across periods—this epoch ending isn’t the settlement point.
**Why now:** The rules window is already clear. Each round allows up to 10 content submissions, and only the best 6 count toward Mindshare. Only Trajectories that users complete and sign on-chain will increase the multiplier. Simply stacking posts or registrations has no equivalent value.
**Metrics worth tracking:**
- Effective interactions for the best 6 pieces of content, not total post count;
- The number of Trajectories completed by recommended users and signed on-chain;
- Cumulative rank across Epochs and whether the rules are adjusted.
**Pitfalls I will avoid:** I won’t copy templates to bulk-post low-quality content; I won’t treat “registration count” as an effective contribution. The hidden cost of this event is research, creation, and conversion time—and the final claim still has to wait until TGE.
## Nowa Finance: Anti-sybil has moved from a slogan to a ban list
**One-sentence highlight:** On August 23, the official cleared accounts that had multiple identities and wallets, aggregated Devnet funds, and generated abnormal transaction volume. This is bad news for volume farmers; for real testers per account, it’s an important signal of the rules.
**Why now:** Farming is still running weekly. The official confirmed rewards are distributed on Saturday, but the ranking logic has already changed. What needs to be verified next is whether, after the cleanup, the natural interactions of modules like Spot, BNPL, Vault, and Earn can achieve stable records.
**Metrics worth tracking:**
- Whether Saturday rewards arrive on time;
- Whether concentration in the leaderboard decreases after the cleanup;
- Whether the official updates the judgment boundaries for funding aggregation, high-frequency trading, and multi-identity linking.
**Pitfalls I will avoid:** I won’t do multi-wallet mutual transfers. I won’t aggregate Faucet assets into the main address, and I won’t mechanically manufacture transaction volume. Fixed exchange and unlock numbers written in third-party tutorials, even if they look deterministic, will not be used as action evidence until the official confirms again.
## Collectible judgment framework
When facing new points or testnets, I only look at four things: **whether the nodes have dates, whether the rules are officially published, whether the actions can leave verifiable records, and whether the exit cost is controllable.** If there are dates but no rules, observe only; if there are rules but it relies on bulk farming and volume, skip it; only if there are real product actions, low capital cost, and records that can be rechecked, do a small-scale trial. Finally, one more question: if there are no rewards at all, would this interaction still help me understand the product? If the answer is no, don’t create meaningless transactions just to farm points.