Why do I get an itch to chase those little on-chain opportunities? Plain and simple: the moment I see gas suddenly get cheaper and the block timing feels smooth, my brain automatically starts filling in the thought, “If I don’t act on this, I’ll lose out”… Only when I do my year-end reconciliation do I realize the losses weren’t from a single trade—they were from my patience.

Now I’ve learned to be smarter: every time I change wallets / bridge across chains / run a contract, I jot down the tx hash, the time, the addresses I used, and the counterparty contract (a screenshot is fine too). Otherwise, when it comes to filing season, you won’t be able to remember whether that “just trying it out” transaction was an airdrop, a rebate, or you just clicked carelessly. Especially lately, NFT royalties have been stirring up more noise again—the messy, winding revenue-sharing paths in the secondary market. Don’t count on the platform to spell it all out for you; in the end, you still need to be able to explain the flow of funds yourself. Anyway, I’ll keep complete records for now, so I don’t go crazy at year-end.