GM everyone, happy Tuesday ☀️ Checked my @zerufinance profile this morning, and the page gave me a clean example of why a leaderboard isn’t the same as a score. My zaps went from 354 to 356. My rank went from #834 to #958. Two more zaps, 124 places lower. The reason is on the same screen: the board went from 27,008 to 27,750 users in a week, so more than 700 new people arrived, and enough of them earned faster than I did to push me down. Rank isn’t measured against a fixed bar. It’s measured against everyone else’s week. Meanwhile my zScore sits at 816, unchanged, and volume is still $76K even though my profile now lists three wallets instead of two. That’s the split I keep coming back to. The score reads wallet history and holds steady. The rank follows zaps, and zaps follow ongoing activity. The panel shows only one bucket moved this week, Other going from 59 to 61, while Relay at 51 and https://t.co/CDbUTGENqv at 13 stayed put. My seven-day chart still reads zero earned, so I can’t tell exactly what produced those two zaps, and I’d rather say that than invent a reason. The app also says zaps are periodically normalized and slashed due to inactivity, which means standing still isn’t neutral. The campaign side keeps moving too. Ditto now shows claims open, with 3,041 traders registered. Aspen is live with 3,609 registered, up from 3,300 a week ago, with a 50,000 USDC pool and 6,000 USDC for 1st place. Those prizes are sponsor-funded and separate from zaps and the planned airdrop. For that airdrop, zaps are points, and I haven’t seen a conversion rate, a snapshot date or a guaranteed allocation announced, so I treat it as a participation game with rules, not a promise. The practical lesson from my own profile: a strong score is a starting line, and if you care about a ranking cutoff, it’s activity that matters, because the field keeps growing. The app also shows a 10% boost for referring traders, which only helps if the people you bring actually trade. If you’ve been onchain for a while, checking your own profile takes a couple of minutes: https://t.co/lyYTYZRizZ Have a good one frens 🧡