Lately, watching NFT liquidity is really like succulents without water: once the floor price drops, the orders all recoil back at once. If you want a deal to actually happen, you can only grit your teeth first and take a bite of slippage. Royalty stuff is awkward too—basically everyone wants creators to keep surviving, but when the market turns cold, buyers’ first instinct is, “Can you cut the deductions a little?” And when it’s hot, suddenly it’s all about community narratives, about faith—the contrast between cold and hot is just way too obvious.

And those new L1/L2s that launch incentives to pull in TVL—old users complain about “dig, pull out, and cash”—and honestly, I get it. Nobody wants to be the baton-pass person. I’m just even more certain about one thing: I don’t need to be understood. I only want to water slowly, at my own pace; read the rules clearly before I act; and don’t let yourself click around out of impulse. Anyway, as long as I can last a bit longer.