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 whether you reach out is up to you. 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 starting point will make my life 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. 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 creating 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 period after I encountered BNB Chain, which allowed me to make a leap in understanding and results for the first time in a real sense. Looking back now, I have already surpassed most of my relatives in terms of results. This is an objective outcome of an ordinary person changing their fate by seizing the opportunities of the times. That is why 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 interacted with continuously. I didn't prove how smart I was; I just stood on what I thought was the most likely side, and this time fate favored me, leading me to 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. Previously, I didn't participate because CZ's dog was too divisive, but this time, it felt like inspiration struck, and I didn't hesitate to buy. Afterward, it plummeted on Alpha, and I was a bit anxious but didn't sell. Ten minutes later, CZ tweeted that he had made a test purchase, and the market cap returned to 60 million. Big Brother kept interacting and changed his avatar, so I changed mine to one with a cloth on my head. It confirmed that I hadn't chosen 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 project information, and I knew this was not an ordinary opportunity. Fourmeme's identity already provided the answer.

I put my money in. Ultimately, a principal of 20,000 dollars reached a maximum value of 20,000 dollars. That day, I was retweeted by CZ, and it was also my first time experiencing such returns in wealth management; everything felt destined.
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May was the real watershed of the year. I began to clearly feel that the layout behind USD1 was not simple. Abu Dhabi invested 2 billion dollars 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 Deep University to join the liquidity pool, but it was too laggy. I made a decision that would later completely change my fate: I directly converted everything into coins and held them.

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

Ultimately, this trade brought me a profit of 1 million dollars. 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 did 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 dollars. When I bought 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 could run out, but whether it was on a track that could truly yield significant results. As long as the direction is correct 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 risks, but controlling risks 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 by working out 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 posts about Binance, BNB Chain, and YZi Labs.

During this process, I continuously observed CZ's attention and interaction with Aster. To be honest, I wasn't very interested in yield farming; I 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 greatest risk, but rather the time of most distorted emotions.

A project that CZ pays so much attention to, with a market cap of only 600 million, is being criticized like this; this is an opportunity under emotional misalignment.

I bought my first $ASTER at 0.08 and continued to increase my position. At 2 AM, CZ tweeted at 0.17, indicating that things were going well, and foreigners began to enter the market. I converted all the assets from my on-chain wallets into Aster. I bought all the way up 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 truly materialized for the first time. This was not the success of a single trade but an accumulation of continuous realizations over a period of time, making me realize for the first time that once the direction is correct, the profits 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 good friends like ru7 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. Of course, I hope to help my friends earn money together, but the reality is that no one can completely replicate another person's operations because everyone has different risk tolerance, understanding of volatility, and judgment of timing. Some will exit early, some can't withstand the pullback, and some will hesitate at the most critical moments. What truly determines the outcome is often 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 whole new financial logic. I believe in CZ, and it is precisely because of this belief that I received my own rewards from fate.

In 2025, Binance offered opportunities to so many people. It’s 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 just depends on whether you can seize it.