Last night I took a small tumble: I saw the pool's APY looked attractive and impulsively jumped in, but the slippage was much worse than I expected, and I ended up buying at a much worse price. It's not that I was slow, but I didn't check the order book first. When liquidity is thin, no matter how tight you try to get with a 0.3% fee, it's useless... Honestly, there's only so much you can take on in the pool, and if you step on the gas, you'll just push yourself to the top of the mountain.

The order placement rhythm is also partly my fault: I rushed in all at once, but I should have split it into two or three smaller trades, testing the slippage curve with small orders first, then adding more. Anyway, now new L1/L2s are offering incentives to boost TVL, and everyone is "mining, harvesting, selling," so liquidity fluctuates a lot—sometimes abundant, sometimes scarce. Don’t trust those numbers on the page too much. From now on, I’ll set a condition for myself: if slippage exceeds a threshold, I’ll cancel immediately—no need to fight myself.