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Just woke up and checked the on-chain records, and I was taught a lesson by the mainnet gas again... To put it simply, ordinary people want a smooth experience but don't want to pay like for a hotpot every time they click confirm. So you have to learn to "use the mainnet as a vault and L2 as a cafeteria." For small, frequent transactions, I mostly put them on L2 to save gas and hassle; but for long-term positions and messy authorizations, I’d rather pay a bit more in mainnet fees to shorten the path and tighten permissions, so I can sleep soundly.
Recently, there's been a lot of talk about social mining and fan tokens, like "attention is mining"... I feel it's more like burning everyone's attention as gas, the hotter it burns, the easier it is to slip up. Anyway, my current compromise is: quickly move in and out on L2 for daily use, and only settle everything on the mainnet when I need to consolidate assets long-term. Don’t treat your wallet like scrolling short videos. That’s it for now.