Lately I’ve been going back and forth between the mainnet and L2—put simply, it’s a choice between gas fees and my mood… The mainnet is like an old-school shopping mall: expensive, but steady; L2 is like a pixel street stall: fun to browse, and every now and then you still have to wait a dozen-odd seconds for the bridge to confirm. While you’re staring at the progress bar, people can even just space out.

My compromise right now is this: if I want to seriously store some “things that won’t move,” I do it all at once on the mainnet and avoid frequent operations. If I want to interact with new protocols or mess around with some memes, I drop 20u into L2 to tinker—if I lose a bit, I’ll just treat it as a ticket price. For cross-chain bridges, I choose those few that everyone uses. Even if the fees are a little higher by a tiny bit, I can accept it—I just want to avoid stepping into pitfalls as much as possible.

Also, recently in some places taxes/compliance have been swinging between tighter and looser, and my mental expectations about deposits and withdrawals really do change… Anyway, I’m even more inclined to break on-chain operations into smaller pieces instead of going all-in in one go. If I can avoid one step, I’ll avoid one step—so that’s where I’m at for now.