{"id":62034,"date":"2026-07-04T21:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nightfame.com\/style\/?p=62034"},"modified":"2026-07-04T22:06:51","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T14:06:51","slug":"chapter-3-the-farming-strategy-the-yield-farming-frenzy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nightfame.com\/style\/chapter-3-the-farming-strategy-the-yield-farming-frenzy\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 3: The Farming Strategy &#8211; The Yield Farming Frenzy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/nightfame.com\/style\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-Yield-Farming-Frenzy-Chapter-3-The-Farming-Strategy-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nightfame.com\/style\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-Yield-Farming-Frenzy-Chapter-3-The-Farming-Strategy-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/nightfame.com\/style\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-Yield-Farming-Frenzy-Chapter-3-The-Farming-Strategy-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/nightfame.com\/style\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-Yield-Farming-Frenzy-Chapter-3-The-Farming-Strategy-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nightfame.com\/style\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/The-Yield-Farming-Frenzy-Chapter-3-The-Farming-Strategy.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nia&#8217;s room had transformed over the past three days. What had once been a cluttered but relatively normal teenage bedroom was now something closer to a command center for financial warfare. Her desk was covered in multiple holographic displays, each one showing different aspects of the Nexus ecosystem. A notebook lay open beside her, filled with meticulous calculations and timestamps. Sticky notes plastered the walls, each one bearing a reminder, a strategy point, or a warning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three protein bar wrappers sat in a small pile next to her keyboard. An energy drink had been replaced by water\u2014she&#8217;d learned the hard way that caffeine and hyper-focus were a dangerous combination when your entire financial future was on the line.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was 8:47 AM on day four of her Nexus farming operation, and Nia was in the zone. She had developed a system, a carefully choreographed routine that maximized her rewards while minimizing her exposure to risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The system was simple in concept but demanding in execution:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Claim.<\/strong>&nbsp;She logged into the Nexus protocol and claimed her accumulated NXT rewards. Timing was crucial here\u2014claiming too early meant higher gas fees relative to the reward amount. Claiming too late meant missing out on potential compounding opportunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Swap.<\/strong>&nbsp;She immediately took her claimed NXT tokens to a decentralized exchange and swapped them for USDC. Every second she held NXT was a second of exposure to price volatility. The Dump Bot was still active, still pushing prices down, and Nia had learned to be faster than it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Re-deposit.<\/strong>&nbsp;She took her freshly acquired USDC and deposited it back into the Nexus liquidity pool, increasing her share and setting the stage for the next round of rewards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Repeat.<\/strong>&nbsp;Every four hours, like clockwork. Six times a day. Twenty-four times a day if she could manage it, though sleep was a persistent obstacle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cycle was relentless, demanding constant attention and near-perfect execution. But Nia had gotten good at it. Very good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She glanced at her current stats:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Total Deposit:<\/strong>\u00a0$4,850 (up from $3,000 initial)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Rewards Claimed:<\/strong>\u00a0$850 worth of NXT<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Effective APY:<\/strong>\u00a0380% (down from the initial 500%)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Total Value Locked in Nexus:<\/strong>\u00a0$14.3 million<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The numbers were impressive. In just four days, she&#8217;d increased her position by nearly sixty percent. If she could maintain this pace, she&#8217;d hit ten thousand dollars in a matter of weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the Dump Bot was making things more difficult. Every time she swapped her NXT for USDC, the price was a little lower than the time before. The effective APY was dropping steadily, and Nia knew it was only a matter of time before the returns became too small to justify the effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She needed to optimize her strategy. She needed to wring every last drop of value out of this opportunity before it evaporated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nia pulled up her notebook and started sketching out improvements to her system:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Optimization Ideas:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"1\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Monitor gas fees<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; Claim only when fees are low<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Batch swaps<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; Combine multiple claims into one transaction to save gas<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Use limit orders<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; Set price targets for NXT swaps to get better execution<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Consider partial holding<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; Keep a small percentage of NXT in case of price recovery<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The last point was risky. Holding NXT meant exposure to the dump, and the dump was relentless. But if the token price ever bounced back, she&#8217;d capture significant upside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Maybe just five percent<\/em>, she thought.&nbsp;<em>A small hedge, nothing more.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She circled the idea and moved on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The holographic display flickered, and a new alert appeared. Nia looked up from her notebook and read the notification:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALERT: New liquidity pool available on Nexus<\/strong><br><strong>Pool: NXT\/ETH<\/strong><br><strong>APY: 850%<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nia&#8217;s eyes widened. Eight hundred fifty percent. That was even higher than the USDC\/ETH pool had been at launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She immediately pulled up the details. The NXT\/ETH pool was a single-sided liquidity pool where users provided ETH and received NXT rewards. The APY was astronomical because the token emissions for this pool were even higher than for the others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there was a catch. Providing liquidity in a single-sided pool meant taking on significant impermanent loss risk. If NXT&#8217;s price continued to drop, she&#8217;d lose value on her ETH deposit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>High risk, high reward<\/em>, she thought.&nbsp;<em>That&#8217;s the game, isn&#8217;t it?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She ran the calculations. If she moved half her position to the NXT\/ETH pool, she could capture the higher rewards while maintaining some exposure to the more stable USDC\/ETH pool. It was a classic diversification strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the risk was real. The NXT token was dropping steadily, and there was no guarantee it would ever recover. If she put her ETH in that pool and the token price continued to crater, she could lose both her rewards and her principal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Stick to the plan<\/em>, she told herself.&nbsp;<em>The USDC\/ETH pool is working. Don&#8217;t get greedy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the 850% APY was tempting. So tempting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nia stared at the offer for a long moment, her finger hovering over the interface. She wanted to click it. She wanted to chase the higher yield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But something held her back. A small voice of caution that had grown louder over the past few days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Remember what happened with the last high-yield protocol<\/em>, the voice whispered.&nbsp;<em>Remember how you lost 40% of your deposit when the token collapsed.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She&#8217;d been burned before. Not as badly as some, but enough to learn a lesson. Chasing the highest APY was a fool&#8217;s game. The protocols with the biggest yields were often the ones with the most unsustainable tokenomics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nia pulled her hand back from the interface. She&#8217;d stick with her current strategy. It was working, and she wouldn&#8217;t let greed derail her progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But she made a note:&nbsp;<em>Monitor NXT\/ETH pool. If APY stays high and token stabilizes, consider moving a small portion.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For now, she&#8217;d stay the course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The next few hours passed in a blur of activity. Nia executed her claiming and swapping routine with mechanical precision, each transaction executed exactly as planned. The Dump Bot continued its assault on the NXT price, but Nia was fast enough to stay ahead of the worst of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She&#8217;d even started using a time-saving trick: instead of swapping her NXT immediately after claiming, she&#8217;d wait until she&#8217;d accumulated a larger amount, then execute a single, larger swap. This saved on gas fees and allowed her to get slightly better execution on her trades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The strategy was working. Her rewards were still flowing in, and her position was still growing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But she was getting tired. The constant monitoring, the endless calculations, the pressure to execute perfectly\u2014it was wearing her down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nia leaned back in her chair and rubbed her eyes. She&#8217;d been at this for nearly six hours straight. She needed a break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She stood up and stretched, her joints popping in protest. Her mother had left her a plate of food on the kitchen counter\u2014rice and vegetables, still warm\u2014and Nia realized she hadn&#8217;t eaten anything since breakfast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She grabbed the plate and ate quickly, not bothering to sit down. The food was good, but she barely tasted it. Her mind was still on the Nexus dashboard, still calculating yields and optimizing strategies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As she ate, she pulled up her phone and scrolled through the social feeds. The community was buzzing with excitement about the new NXT\/ETH pool. Some users were boasting about moving their entire positions into the higher-yielding opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;850% APY LET&#8217;S GOOOO!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;This is the real money maker. USDC\/ETH is for babies.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;I just put 5 ETH in the NXT pool. See you on the moon!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nia shook her head. These were the same people who&#8217;d been hyping the USDC\/ETH pool a few days ago. They were chasing yields like dogs chasing cars, never thinking about where the road led.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She finished her food and returned to her desk. The Nexus dashboard was still there, still waiting for her to continue the cycle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She looked at her notebook, at the elaborate strategy she&#8217;d developed. The claiming schedule, the swap optimization, the re-deposit timing. It was all so complicated, so demanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it was also working. And that made it worth it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nia settled back into her chair and prepared for the next round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, in a different part of the city, Arjun was experiencing his own version of the farming frenzy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He&#8217;d been watching the user activity logs with growing unease. The farmers were getting more aggressive, more sophisticated. Some of them had developed bots that were even faster than the Dump Bot they&#8217;d been competing against.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The protocol was being stripped for parts. Users were extracting value as quickly as possible, with no regard for the long-term health of the ecosystem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arjun pulled up the NXT token price chart. The downward trend was accelerating. The Dump Bot had pushed the price below 4 cents, and panic selling was starting to set in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NXT Price: $0.039**<br>**Market Cap: $39 million<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The numbers were grim. At this rate, the token would be worthless within a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there was one bright spot in the data. A user named Crypto_Nia was still actively farming, still compounding her rewards. She&#8217;d stuck with the USDC\/ETH pool despite the higher yields being offered elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>She&#8217;s playing it smart<\/em>, Arjun thought, a flicker of respect crossing his mind.&nbsp;<em>Not chasing the highest number. Just executing her strategy consistently.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He pulled up her transaction history again. It was a masterclass in yield farming execution\u2014efficient, disciplined, and relentless. She&#8217;d already grown her position by nearly 60% in just four days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But she was also caught in the same trap as everyone else. She was extracting value from the protocol without contributing anything back. No governance participation. No community engagement. No long-term commitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>She&#8217;s the best of the farmers<\/em>, Arjun thought.&nbsp;<em>But she&#8217;s still a farmer.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He needed to change that. He needed to give her\u2014and everyone like her\u2014a reason to stay beyond the immediate rewards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The governance staking contract was almost complete. Users who locked their liquidity for 30 days would get voting power in the protocol&#8217;s governance, a stake in Nexus&#8217;s future direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But would that be enough? Would farmers like Crypto_Nia be willing to lock their assets for a month in exchange for something that wasn&#8217;t guaranteed to have monetary value?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arjun didn&#8217;t know. But he had to try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He pulled up his code editor and started the final testing on the staking contract. The clock was ticking. The farmers were leaving, the token price was dropping, and the protocol was running out of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Nia&#8217;s next round of farming was interrupted by a message from her friend Maya:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Hey, you alive? Haven&#8217;t heard from you in days.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nia paused, her finger hovering over the claim button. She&#8217;d been so absorbed in her farming that she&#8217;d completely lost track of the outside world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Yeah, I&#8217;m fine,&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;she typed back.&nbsp;<em>&#8220;Just working on something big.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Bigger than your friends?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nia felt a pang of guilt. Maya had been reaching out regularly, and Nia had been blowing her off. The farming required all her attention, all her energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Sorry,&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;she wrote.&nbsp;<em>&#8220;I&#8217;ve just been really focused. Making money, you know?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;I get it. Just don&#8217;t forget to come up for air sometimes.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;I won&#8217;t. How are things with you?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Same old. School&#8217;s boring. My parents are driving me crazy. You know the drill.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nia smiled. Maya was one of the few people who understood her. She didn&#8217;t judge Nia&#8217;s obsession with DeFi, even if she didn&#8217;t fully understand it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;We should hang out soon,&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;Nia wrote.&nbsp;<em>&#8220;When this opportunity settles down.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Promise?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Promise.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nia set down her phone and looked at the Nexus dashboard. The numbers were still there, still growing. But somehow, the urgency had faded a little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She clicked the claim button anyway. The cycle continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Arjun was in the middle of a final round of testing when the error occurred. The governance staking contract wasn&#8217;t working as expected\u2014a bug in the code was preventing users from properly locking their tokens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He stared at the error message in frustration. The bug was minor, easily fixable, but it would require another hour of work to resolve. And time was something he didn&#8217;t have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Nirav,&#8221; he called out, hoping his younger brother was within earshot. &#8220;Can you bring me some food?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A head poked through the door. &#8220;You&#8217;re still in here? Mom said you had to come out for dinner.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I will. Just bring me something.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nirav rolled his eyes. &#8220;You&#8217;re so obsessed with that stuff. What is it anyway?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s complicated,&#8221; Arjun said, not looking up from his code. &#8220;I&#8217;ll explain later. Just bring me food, okay?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Fine. But you owe me.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The head disappeared, and Arjun returned to his code. The bug was in the staking rewards calculation, a subtle error that would have shortchanged users who locked their tokens for longer periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Can&#8217;t have that<\/em>, he thought.&nbsp;<em>If I&#8217;m going to ask people to lock their liquidity, I need to be completely fair about the rewards.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He fixed the bug and ran the tests again. This time, everything worked perfectly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Arjun leaned back in his chair, exhaustion washing over him. The staking contract was ready. The governance reward proposal was ready. All that remained was to present it to the community and hope that they&#8217;d embrace the new model.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He pulled up the forum and began drafting the proposal. It would need to be clear, persuasive, and compelling. He needed to convince the farmers that governance rights were valuable, that participating in the protocol&#8217;s future was worth more than a few extra dollars of immediate yield.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;Dear Nexus Community,&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;he began.&nbsp;<em>&#8220;I&#8217;m writing to propose a new reward mechanism that will align our incentives and create a more sustainable future for our protocol&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Nia had just completed her evening farming round when she noticed the notification from the Nexus protocol. It was a forum post, flagged as an official announcement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Proposal: Governance Rewards for Long-Term Liquidity Providers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She clicked on it, curious. The post was written by a developer named Arjun, who introduced himself as the protocol&#8217;s co-founder. The proposal was detailed, explaining a new mechanism that would reward users who locked their liquidity for extended periods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;We&#8217;ve seen an incredible response to our liquidity mining program,&#8221;<\/em>&nbsp;the proposal read.&nbsp;<em>&#8220;But we&#8217;ve also seen a trend that worries me: users who provide liquidity solely for the immediate rewards, without any commitment to the protocol&#8217;s long-term vision.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;To address this, I&#8217;m proposing a new type of reward: Governance Rewards. Users who lock their liquidity for 30 days or more will receive voting-escrowed NXT tokens (veNXT), which give them voting power in the protocol&#8217;s governance.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;This isn&#8217;t a monetary reward\u2014it&#8217;s a stake in the future of Nexus. With veNXT, you&#8217;ll have a voice in decisions about protocol upgrades, fee structures, and new features.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nia read the proposal carefully. It was long and detailed, filled with technical specifications and economic modeling. But the core concept was simple: lock your liquidity, get voting rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>They want to lock me in<\/em>, she thought.&nbsp;<em>They want to make it harder for me to leave.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The proposal was smart, she had to admit. By incentivizing long-term participation, Nexus would become more stable, more resilient to the kind of farmer-driven chaos that had been eroding the token&#8217;s value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it was also a trap. Locking her liquidity meant she couldn&#8217;t withdraw, couldn&#8217;t move to the next opportunity. If the protocol failed while her funds were locked, she&#8217;d lose everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thirty days is a long time<\/em>, she thought.&nbsp;<em>A lot can happen in thirty days.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She scrolled through the comments on the proposal. There was a mix of reactions\u2014some supportive, some skeptical, some outright hostile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;This is a scam to trap our funds!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;I&#8217;m here for the yield, not for governance.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;This actually makes sense. The protocol needs stability.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>&#8220;If you don&#8217;t like it, just don&#8217;t lock your tokens. It&#8217;s optional.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nia read through the debate, her mind racing. The proposal was optional\u2014users could choose whether or not to participate. But the framing made it clear that the protocol would favor long-term participants over short-term farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>They&#8217;re trying to filter us out<\/em>, she realized.&nbsp;<em>They want to get rid of the farmers and keep the believers.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And she was a farmer. A mercenary. Here for the yield, not the vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But was that true anymore? She&#8217;d been farming Nexus for days now, and something had shifted. She&#8217;d started reading the community forum, learning about the protocol&#8217;s vision. She&#8217;d started to care, just a little bit, about whether Nexus succeeded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maybe there was more to this than just the APY.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nia closed the proposal and returned to her dashboard. Her rewards were still accumulating, her position still growing. But the numbers felt different now. Smaller. Less meaningful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She looked at her notebook, at the elaborate farming strategy she&#8217;d developed. It was a masterpiece of optimization, a perfect machine for extracting value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But what was the point? What was she building, really? A bigger portfolio? A larger number on a screen?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Maybe I should try something different<\/em>, she thought.&nbsp;<em>Maybe I should take this seriously.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea was scary. It meant committing to something beyond the next yield. It meant taking a risk on a vision, not just a number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it also meant being part of something bigger than herself. Something that might actually last.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nia stared at her screen for a long moment. 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