It's raining a bit hard today, the intersection is congested and frustrating, and the coffee I bought has gone cold wherever I left it... I’ve been browsing the chain for a while, and everyone is talking about narratives like sharding and parallel processing, which is indeed lively, but honestly, I care more about two things: where to store assets more securely, and whether I can smoothly withdraw if something really happens. When picking up small arbitrage opportunities across DEXes, the more fancy the route, the more timid I get; I’d rather earn less than risk losing everything and want to be able to return to the original chain/original assets with one click.

Recently, those on-chain data tools and tagging systems have been criticized for being laggy and misleading. I believe it, anyway I don’t really dare to treat “a certain address is smart money” as gospel. If I really want to compare, at least I should look at how funds flow in and out, whether the pools are deep, and if the slippage on exit will bury you... The good thing about lone wolves is that they are slow, but not easily led astray. That’s all for now.