Just now, I queued up in the mempool again and started to doubt my own life… When the network is congested, the transaction you broadcast is basically being observed in a “waiting room”: miners/validators will board the ones that look more attractive first, and if the fee you paid isn’t enough, it just gets stuck. During that time, it can also be targeted by all kinds of bots that try to front-run or squeeze in alongside it—especially when you’re trying to chase hot trends on-chain. To put it bluntly, you’re exposing yourself under the spotlight.

Recently, the community hasn’t been arguing about whether extreme funding-rate moves will reverse or whether we’re just squeezing the bubble even tighter. My feeling is: the more extreme it gets, the less you should rush to go all-in (or trade aggressively). Once there’s a traffic jam on-chain, your mindset gets jammed too, and you end up torturing yourself with thoughts like, “I clearly clicked confirm—why hasn’t it been executed yet”… Anyway, I’d rather go slower now. If the fee isn’t right, I’ll cancel the order and resend it, or just wait a bit before doing anything.

I’m going to adjust the fee for that stuck tx first, and then turn on monitoring to see whether anything is abnormal on the bridge. That’s it for now.