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Recently, someone has been pushing the unlock calendar again, essentially just creating market anxiety in advance.
I personally am more anxious about gas: the mainnet is like an old city district, a trip there is expensive but reliable; Layer 2 is like a new building, with fast elevators, but sometimes there's a power outage, and you can only wait.
In the past, whenever I saw a project on Layer 2 with a smooth interface, I would casually follow, thinking "Finally, someone understands ordinary people."
After experiencing a few times of bridge failures and withdrawal issues, my mindset changed: if I can try small amounts on Layer 2 first, I will.
For contracts that I plan to hold long-term and have many permissions, I still prefer to go back to the mainnet to pay the tuition.
Recently, I also quietly unfollowed a few; nothing major, just that they talk about scalability every day, but when users have problems, they just blame "you didn't read the announcement"...
Forget it, on-chain human nature is more real than TPS.