Recently, going through my trading records has become a headache, really waiting until the end of the year to patch things up and just waiting to go crazy… My current clumsy method is: every time I switch positions / cross chains / do DeFi, I conveniently export a copy of the exchange statement, use the same accounting tool to sync the on-chain addresses, and then write a note in the remarks: why I did it, from where to where, whether there’s lending/liquidation risk. Don’t underestimate this note, or else when you see a bunch of hashes later, you won’t remember anything.

By the way, recently everyone’s been complaining that miners/validators earn a lot, and MEV makes the ordering unfair. I also resonate a bit: the price difference before and after the same on-chain operation is a quick grab, and it’s pretty awkward to explain in tax reports “why the transaction price looks weird”… So now I try to split large transactions into smaller ones, avoid the busiest times, at least making the records look less outrageous.

There’s too much information and it causes anxiety. My filtering method is simple: only focus on “transactions I’ve done” and “things that affect costs/profits/interest,” put other grand narratives aside first, keep the books clean, and let it ferment slowly.