The first year of BNB Chain, hmm, a year when life truly breaks the shell

Author: EnHeng Hmm

Looking back at 2025, I increasingly believe in one thing: fate knocks on your door repeatedly, and it's up to you whether to reach out. This year, I started with 15 BNB and by the end of the year, I could confidently put 2000 BNB into fixed deposits (not counting unrealized gains, USDT, BTC, and other funds). This is just the starting point; my life will be more exciting and broader. I come from an ordinary family, and when I first entered crypto, my goal was simply to achieve basic needs and independence, no longer relying on my family for living expenses. Crypto gave me this opportunity. Over the past three years, I have learned many things, and I know that I have surpassed over 90% of those trained in the traditional financial system, because we are not replicating history; we are participating in the creation of something new. The finance in textbooks is more about fundamentals and summaries, while crypto is the reality that is happening. What truly changed the trajectory of my life was the time after I encountered BNB Chain; it allowed me to make a leap in understanding and results in a real sense. Looking back now, I have already surpassed most of my relatives in terms of results, which is an objective outcome of an ordinary person seizing the opportunity of the times to change their fate. Therefore, I sincerely thank BNB Chain, a place that offers ordinary people the chance to change their destiny; why shouldn't I be grateful?

I don't prove myself through frequent trading; I only stake my life on what I truly believe at key moments. Before each critical buy, I hesitate, doubt, and fear making the wrong judgment, just like everyone else. At truly important junctures, I choose to believe.

In February 2025, fate clearly stood before me for the first time. I bought $TST. I entered with a market cap of 10 million, which peaked at 500 million, eventually reaching 50x on Binance. That was the first time I made a trade in the crypto world that made me realize life can indeed be rewritten by a single choice.

At that time, there was no precise deduction or market cap estimation. I simply saw the first meme that CZ retweeted and continuously interacted with. I didn't prove how smart I was; I just stood on what I believed to be the most likely side, and this time, fate favored me, leading to my victory.
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In March, fate pushed me again. $Mubarak appeared before me. When it had a market cap of 30 million, I was struck by the white hat narrative. I had not participated previously due to CZ's divisive comments, but this time, it felt like inspiration struck, and I bought in without hesitation. Afterward, it plummeted on Alpha, and I was a bit panicked but did not sell. Ten minutes later, CZ tweeted that he had made a test purchase, and the market cap returned to 60 million. Big Brother continued to interact and changed his avatar, and I also changed mine to one with a cloth on my head. It confirmed that I had not taken the wrong direction, and I held from 30 million all the way to about 120 million market cap on Binance.
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In April, I saw Fourmeme retweeting SkyAI's new listing information, and I knew this was not an ordinary opportunity. The identity of Fourmeme itself had already provided the answer.

I put my money in. Ultimately, a principal of $20,000 reached a maximum value of $20,000. That day, I was retweeted by CZ, and it was also my first time experiencing such returns in wealth management; everything felt fated.
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May was the true watershed of the year. I began to feel that the layout behind USD1 was not simple. Abu Dhabi invested 2 billion USD in Binance using USD1, which indicated a directional choice.

I started scanning chains and discovered a project using USD1 as its liquidity pool. The market cap was only 20 million, but the trading volume had already reached 100 to 200 million. Sensing something was off, I called for Deep University to join the liquidity pool, but it was too laggy. I made a decision that would ultimately change my fate: I directly converted everything into coins and held on.

In the middle of the night, I was still pushing to friends when the market cap suddenly jumped to 100 million. My first reaction was not to get rich, but to realize the pool was stuck. It wasn't until the news broke that the Trump family had bought in that I realized I was standing on the main line of the times.

Ultimately, this trade brought me a profit of $1 million. I held from 20 million all the way to a market cap of 300 to 400 million. I also accepted an interview with Fourmeme.
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Why in this annual summary do I not review those losing projects? Because for me, many projects were never meant to be reviewed from the start. My participation itself was based on a horse racing logic, with individual project investments generally between $20,000 to $50,000. When buying in, I had already accepted the worst outcome; even if I lost everything, the impact on the overall asset curve would be very limited. In this position structure, the focus was never on whether each horse ran out, but whether I was on the track that truly had the potential for big results. As long as the direction is right and one or two projects succeed, it is enough to cover all previous losses. Therefore, I prefer to spend my time and energy reviewing those choices that truly changed the trajectory of my life, rather than repeatedly consuming emotions over small losses. This is not ignoring risk; rather, it is about controlling risk within a range that I can fully bear from the beginning. What I aim for is not to win every time, but to ensure that whenever fate truly offers an opportunity, I am present and have enough position.

At this point, I have completed the accumulation of my life and stabilized at A8. I am not in a hurry for the next step; I started to improve myself, exercising daily, eating scientifically, and continuously learning, entering a four-month period of consolidation. I know that fate will not always favor you in the same way, so I invested almost all my energy into learning about the BNB ecosystem, accumulating nearly a hundred pieces of content about Binance, BNB Chain, and YZi Labs.

During this process, I continuously saw CZ's attention and interaction with Aster. To be honest, I wasn't very interested in yield farming and only participated symbolically until the opening day when almost everyone was criticizing $Aster. At that moment, I became incredibly clear-headed.

When everyone is criticizing, it is often not the time of the greatest risk, but rather the time of the most distorted emotions.

A project that CZ is so focused on, with a market cap of only 600 million, yet being criticized in the secondary market like this, is an opportunity under emotional misalignment.

I bought my first $ASTER at 0.08 and continued to add to my position. At 2 AM, CZ tweeted at 0.17 that things were going well, and foreigners began to enter the market. I converted all the assets in my on-chain wallets into Aster. I bought all the way to 0.9, with an extremely low average price, peaking at 2.2.

This was the most perfect trade of my career. After Aster, my asset structure underwent a substantial change, and many judgments that were originally just on paper finally turned into real results. It was not the success of a single trade but an accumulation of continuous realizations over a period of time, which also made me realize for the first time that once the direction is right, the returns themselves become a byproduct.
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During this time, I also brought some friends along to make money, but very few were able to keep up and fully profit, even friends like ru7 who copied my trades found it hard to be completely consistent. So later, I became increasingly aware that relying solely on others to guide you in trading is inherently a very difficult thing. I certainly hope to help my friends make money together, but the reality is that no one can completely replicate another person's operations, because everyone has different risk tolerances, understandings of volatility, and judgments of timing. Some may exit early, some may not withstand the pullback, and some may hesitate at the most critical moments. What often determines the outcome are these invisible details, which is why I later placed more emphasis on directional judgment and independent decision-making.

Many people ask me why I believe so much in BNB Chain. I want to say that fate itself has a magnetic field.

Just like Musk believes he can build rockets and electric cars. He earned the position of the world's richest person through his faith, allowing those who believe in him to make money.

If we are not the ones who can change the world, then at least we should bet on those who truly have the potential to change the world.

Early BTC holders essentially believed in a completely new financial logic. I believe in CZ, and it is precisely because of this belief that I have received my own rewards from fate.

In 2025, Binance gave many people opportunities. It is not that there are few opportunities, but whether you are willing to choose to believe at key moments, rather than retreat.

Thanks to @binancezh @BNBCHAINZH @yzilabs @AsterDEX @FourFORM_ @cz_binance @heyibinance, thanks to all builders, and also thanks to all holders!

Fate may have already lingered before us once; it depends on whether you can seize it.