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Lately, I've been bouncing back and forth between L2 and the mainnet, feeling like choosing a hatch in a spaceship: the mainnet is the flagship, stable, expensive, and each opening burns some fuel; L2 is like an external module, cheap and smooth, but occasionally needs to connect/disconnect, and if the process takes too long, I start to find it troublesome. To put it simply, ordinary users have two compromises: for daily interactions, try to avoid L2 as much as possible; for long-term storage or operations involving significant permissions (authorization/signature changes/large transfers), I still prefer to do it on the mainnet, even if it's slower.
Recently, hardware wallets are out of stock again, and there are especially many phishing links... I now treat my system as if it's being "patched": not aiming for a full security suite in one go, just small fixes and updates, like adding frequently used addresses to a whitelist, pausing two seconds on each link click, turning off permissions when possible. If I want to be more romantic, in a modular world, even if it's dazzling, if I click the interface wrong just once, it’s not science fiction—it’s an incident report. That’s all for now.