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On the first clear winter day, the snowballs children build keep rolling and becoming solid and heavy—this scene is etched into the cultural memory of the Chinese people. The ancients used snow to sculpt lions for good fortune, and snowballs to ward off evil spirits; behind these small white spheres lies a simple wisdom: small forces combined can form an unshakable foundation.
This logic finds a new interpretation in the world of blockchain. The core of distributed ledger technology is to make each participant’s contribution stack together like snowflakes, forming a strong fortress of consensus. Without centralized control, each transaction verification on the chain is a genuine record, written into an immutable ledger. This is not some mysticism, but the hard power of cryptography and consensus mechanisms.
Ancient craftsmen stacking snow lions followed strict steps—shaping the body, refining the form, adding the finishing touch—each step had standards. Smart contracts do exactly this: encode transaction rules, rights distribution, and other logic into code, automatically executing to eliminate risks and disputes from middlemen. This is a digital upgrade of the spirit of contracts, a modern practice of our ancestors’ ancient saying "words of trust" in the internet age.
And those tokens with a fixed total supply are a perfect echo of the Eastern philosophy that "rare objects are valuable." The scarcity of supply makes each piece of consensus increasingly significant over time. From a tiny initial snow seed, to a rolling huge snowball, and then to a core force within an ecosystem—this is the simplest, yet most powerful growth logic.