Today, the chain was clogged again for a while, and that “queue” feeling in the mempool is genuinely real: you think clicking is all it takes, but actually the transaction has to wait outside first for miners/validators to choose it. If your gas is set too low, it will keep getting stuck. During that time, the price slides around too. The hardest part is that on the lending side, the liquidation line won’t wait for you—when one move happens, the collateral and related correlation can move in a batch, and your mindset gets pulled apart.

Recently, the whole AI Agent and automated trading setup has been getting hot again. I’ve seen people hype it up like it’s as if you’re essentially printing money with full automation, but the plain truth is: the more automated the on-chain interactions are, the more you’re afraid that you weren’t watching the small traps—nonce, authorization, replay, and the like. If it gets stuck once, it can lead to a domino effect. Either way, the extra step I’m willing to take is this: when the network is congested, I’d rather wait ten more minutes, first use simulation/estimation to see whether it will fail, and then manually adjust the authorization amount so it’s just enough. It’s more troublesome, but it lets you sleep more peacefully.