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I just got a little scared… I almost added to my position because I thought “nothing’s moving on-chain.” Turns out, when I checked, it was my usual RPC/indexer throwing a fit—the browser’s data was lagging behind, and everything froze like it was pretending to be dead. To put it plainly, a lot of what you call “on-chain” is someone else relaying it to you, not the chain itself showing live right in front of your eyes.
Lately, L2s have been arguing every day about TPS, fees, and subsidies. I’m not picking sides for now; I’ll first see whether the entry point I use is stable. Before any key actions, I’ll switch between two or three RPCs to cross-check; if I need to, I’ll go straight to the original transaction or block height. Otherwise, once latency hits, my stop-loss conditions become just a formality… I might be greedy in words, but in practice I still have to be a bit more cautious.