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Recently, someone complained that mainnet gas feels like a lottery, and L2 experience is quite smooth, but honestly, my current compromise is: small daily transactions all go to L2, and if I really need to move "core positions," I’ll slowly switch back to the mainnet. If it’s expensive, so be it—at least I feel more at ease. As for cross-chain bridges... they had another issue a couple of days ago, and I’m even lazier now to gamble on a "bridge without problems" just to save a few bucks. I’d rather go through more steps than wake up in the middle of the night wondering where my assets went.
I used to be quite stubborn, always saying "I only look at on-chain data." When oracle prices go haywire and everyone collectively chooses to "wait for confirmation," I realize that emotions are actually part of the chain too: if you don’t wait, but others do, you become the liquidity that gets squeezed. Anyway, now it’s like this: protect the transaction if you can, if not, just take a sip of tea, wait for two blocks to confirm, then click the button.