This trip to Dubai marked a perfect end to 2024. The blockchain week organized by a leading exchange was quite thoughtful—you could feel the team's sincerity from the venue to the agenda.

As a three-time winner of the "Top Square Author" and "Top Trader" awards 🏆, attending this time as an invited guest, the greatest takeaway wasn't the trophy, but those long-missed faces and refreshing conversations. The industry circle isn't that big, and running into old friends in a foreign country brings a special sense of familiarity and comfort.

What excited me most was meeting again with that Chinese tycoon and platform founder—I privately call him "Big Bro." The family dinner in Shanghai three years ago is still vivid in my memory; his down-to-earth attitude left a deep impression. Reuniting in Dubai three years later, I found he’s still just as approachable. Perhaps this personal charm is the underlying reason he's managed to bring the platform to the global forefront.

The Chinese community meetup hosted by Co-CEO Ms. He (—everyone calls her "Big Sis" )—was also rewarding. Her daily outfits were always carefully chosen, mainly in shades of green—I joked that it’s like the "green rising" signal on our trading interface, quite a fun coincidence. During the Q&A, her responses were candid and avoided official clichés; you could sense her genuine attention to the community. For the platform to reach the ten-million-user goal, this level of drive at the execution level is truly key.

Several members of the operations team—Echo, Hanson, Sisi, KIM—took care of all the arrangements, from meals to accommodations and transportation, down to the last detail. It's often this attention to detail that shows the most skill.

At the awards ceremony, I ran into many familiar faces: Yan Chi is still as suave as ever; Tang Hua, the moderator, truly deserved the "Independent Researcher" award—I've been following his in-depth reports all along; the post-00s "Principal" has such a dynamic mindset that even an old hand like me feels outdone; then there’s "Prince" with his fashion sense, the "Nut Brothers" with their table talk, "Link" holding his coins from a $100 cost basis with great conviction, Miss "Miqiu" and her singing, Remi from Taiwan with over 300,000 YouTube subscribers, and Zhu Yidan himself with that sunny disposition... everyone has their own spark.

This trip to Dubai reaffirmed something for me: While technology and capital are important in the Web3 industry, what truly makes people stay are those warm, genuine connections.