These days, I see a bunch of people talking about "data availability/ordering/finality" as if it's some kind of mysticism... My own main focus is actually pretty straightforward: who sees the transaction first, who queues up, and how long it takes to truly settle. Ordering is about who controls the queue (mempool has been feeling like watching people cut in line), data availability is about whether they say they have it but can't actually produce it, and finality is about not getting slapped in the face with a rollback the next day.

Others think that moving to L2 means it's faster and more stable; in reality, it's fast, but you need to know where it stores data, who's in line, and when it becomes truly irreversible.

By the way, I want to complain a bit about how recently RWA, US bond yields, and on-chain yield products are all lumped together as if they’re the same thing... I’d actually ask first: who guarantees the data and finality behind the yield? Anyway, right now I look at "yield" first and foremost by checking whether it can be verified and whether I can exit, that’s the priority.