Recently, I’m stuck again on whether to use the mainnet or an L2—plainly speaking, it’s that one side complains about gas being expensive, while the other complains about the experience feeling fragmented. The mainnet is like an old urban district: the roads are narrow but everything’s orderly and the rules are clear. L2 is like a new development zone: you can move around fast, but the constant “bridge this to that” leaves people feeling uneasy. My compromise is honestly kind of unrefined: small everyday transactions and frequent operations go on L2; if it’s something you’ll hold for the long term, or if it involves large amounts or important permissions, I’d rather pay a bit more gas to go back to the mainnet—just so I can sleep at night.

In the past couple of days, I’ve seen people venting about miner/validator income, MEV, and unfair ordering. Honestly, I get it. I mean, I’m the one who initiated the transaction, yet it ends up feeling like someone cut in line… Anyway, I default to the idea that “you’ll never beat the faster people in the system,” so I avoid those orders that require timing down to the second.

I used to say, “I only look at the on-chain,” thinking my emotions were just noise; later I found out you can’t ignore emotions either. When everyone panics, bridge congestion, slippage, and fees all come to teach you a lesson. So now it’s just this: look at trends on-chain, treat emotions as an early warning, don’t be overly stubborn—living is the most important.