Honestly, I’ve never hidden my small goals — last year I was still working on construction sites, and now I’ve fully paid off a new energy vehicle. This isn’t bragging, but rather riding the right wave. People around me laugh and say I’m "quietly making a fortune," but the secret is actually that simple.

I used to be considered an old hand in the crypto circle, involved in stock recommendation groups, forex mentors, and all kinds of "quick wealth" schemes, but in the end, I lost everything down to my underwear. Until one day, I came across a project document on a Web3 forum — a Layer1 privacy public chain launched as early as 2018, focusing on "privacy + compliance" as the financial infrastructure. I was in a desperate state, thinking I might as well try, and surprisingly, it opened up a new world for me.

The chain’s killer feature is zero-knowledge proof technology. Simply put: your transaction data, holdings, and lending details are all encrypted, and no one but you can see them. But the amazing part is that regulatory audits still need to be conducted; all operations leave traces on the chain, completely avoiding worries about "runaway with funds" or "black money risks." I used ETH as collateral (bridged in cross-chain), borrowed stablecoins, and invested in a compliant DeFi protocol. The entire process is zero privacy leakage, yet the returns are significantly higher than other public chains.

During the ETH crash last March, the price dropped over 15%. My friends on other platforms were frantically margin called, under huge pressure to add collateral. But on my side? The automatic liquidation mechanism only required me to add 0.5% more margin — how big is the difference? The money I saved was directly reinvested into tokens related to real assets, staking for a stable annual yield of 12%. The returns over a year outshined traditional bank savings.

Looking back now, the so-called "secret to getting rich" is nothing more than choosing the right track and understanding the essence of risk management. This privacy + compliance framework allowed me to enjoy the high efficiency of DeFi while avoiding the risks of platform failures common in traditional exchanges.