Last night, the network was congested again, sending a transfer felt like waiting in line in the mempool... First, I acted calm with "Broadcasted," but after a few minutes with no updates, I started to get itchy and wanted to speed up/retry. Basically, during congestion, your transaction is competing with others for position: miners/validators prioritize those who pay more, and if you pay less, it stays pending or even expires and gets returned; even worse, if you quickly resend before the previous one is fully dropped, your wallet still has the balance/nonce stuck, making you even more anxious.

I then forced myself to set up a "reminder/limit": if the fee exceeds a certain amount, I won't chase it anymore, just leave it pending. I'd rather be slow than get emotionally pressured into increasing the fee. Surprisingly, after setting this up, my mindset really changed—I didn't feel the need to monitor the mempool or blocks as much, like installing a circuit breaker for myself.

Recently, everyone compares RWA and U.S. Treasury yields to on-chain yield products, and I get a warning bell ringing: no matter how high the returns are, don’t overlook the experience costs and incident costs of on-chain “queueing + front-running + gas chaos.” Anyway, I’ve tightened permissions and limits first—if it’s slow, so be it. Better than having to issue an apology statement again.