Recently, I’ve been tinkering with the trade-off between L2 and the mainnet—basically, whether to save on gas or save on hassle. My approach is “map-like”: first, list the target ecosystem and the actions you need to interact with, then layer by cost. If it can be done on L2, don’t force it onto the mainnet—especially for certain small swaps, mints, and similar transactions; the experience is definitely much smoother. But if it involves large amounts of assets, important approvals, or if you’ll need to cross back and forth later, I still prefer to just get it done on the mainnet once. It’s more expensive, but it feels solid and reassuring.

In the past couple of days, I’ve also seen a lot of people venting about validator earnings and how MEV leads to unfair ordering… and honestly, I feel pretty helpless too. Ordinary people just can’t compete with “cutting in line” in terms of speed, so the only thing I can do is work around it with strategy: don’t fight over the same popular transaction when things are especially congested—if you can split it into batches, do so; and if you can use limit prices, don’t try to chase aggressively. Anyway, I don’t gamble on mysticism—I bet on executing my route according to plan. Even if it’s slower, that’s fine.