That night I stared at the screen, my hands shaking.
CRVโs price had already fallen to $0.3216, and in my margin account I had only the last $300 left. Three days earlier I still had 20k U, going long on CRV with 20x leverage. I thought that if the leader of decentralized exchanges fell to this level, it would definitely rebound. Instead, the market told me that the two words โI thoughtโ are worth nothing in the crypto world.
When the liquidation alert text came in, I was eating instant noodles. The liquidation price was 0.3180, and the liquidation engine didnโt give me a moment of breathing room. I watched my account balance drop from four digits to three, noodle soup splashing onto the keyboard, and I didnโt even have the heart to wipe it up.
My wife called from the bedroom to go to sleep. I told her to wait a bit. She didnโt know Iโd already lost most of our marriage fund.
0.3216. That number drove like a nail into my brain. I opened the Binance Square, and the screen was full of posts saying โCRV to zeroโ and โCurve is dead.โ One influencer analyzed that CRVโs TVL was declining, protocol revenue was shrinking, and the conclusion was it would drop another half. Below, there were three hundred commentsโjust all people cursing.
I slammed my phone face-down on the desk and closed my eyes. Two voices fought in my head. One said, quickly take out the remaining 300 Uโat least you can still eat something good for a few days. The other said, has the logic behind buying CRV changed? Has DeFi demand disappeared? Is on-chain transaction volume growing or shrinking?
I reopened my phone and pulled up on-chain data. Curveโs daily trading volume hadnโt crashedโ it had just fallen from its peak. TVL was indeed lower, but more than a billion dollars was still locked in. A protocol with tens of thousands of daily active usersโits token price fell to a market cap of less than 200 million. Does that make sense?
I donโt know. But I know one thing: if I cut my losses now, Iโd truly have nothing left.
Using my last $300, I bought spot CRV with everything at 0.3220. No leverage, no contractsโjust the most straightforward buy-and-hold. I uninstalled the trading app, tossed my phone on the bedside table, and told my wife I was going out to the balcony to get some air.
That night I stood on the balcony for a long time, watching the city lights. I thought that if these 300 U were gone too, Iโd go back to working honestly, and Iโd never touch contracts again.
A month later, I opened the app again.
CRV was $0.3938, and it had peaked at $0.4036. My $300 had turned into more than $400, a return of 22%. Not a lot, but it was the proudest trade of my life. Not because of how much I made, but because when everyone else was afraid, I made a calm decision.
Later, CRV kept rising, and I added more a few times. But the $300 I bought at 0.3220 that night was the turning point of my crypto career. It taught me one thing: contracts can blow up your position, but they canโt blow up your belief.
The premise is that you have belief.
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