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Recently, I’ve been hitting the memory pool so much I’m a bit numb… The confirmation speed and security on the mainnet are really stable, but just thinking about gas makes my hands tremble, especially for someone like me who loves short-term trading—clicking twice feels like tipping the miners.
Later, I learned my lesson: for most small interactions and frequent operations, I skip L2; only keep on the mainnet what’s truly meant for long-term holding and what I don’t want to cause trouble, to keep things simple.
But L2 isn’t free either—bridges, cross-chain messages, occasional stalling experiences, anyone who’s used them knows.
Now a bunch of AI Agents and automated trading tools are coming out, hyped up like crazy, but I see on-chain it’s mostly: either writing really aggressive scripts or opening up permissions even more… (Don’t ask, I almost set the authorization to “infinite” myself)
Anyway, my current principle is pretty simple: sign less if you can, limit the amount if you can, for speed it’s okay, but don’t go overboard.
That’s it for now.