Previously, I would pause when seeing those "coincidental transfers" on-chain, thinking they were mysterious. Now that I've seen more, I realize there are no coincidences—only paths.

Like when you're using navigation and clearly choose Route A, but somehow get rerouted into an alley called B, and end up arriving faster—it's not luck; it's just that a certain node happened to be congested at that second, and the routing protocol switched lanes for you. Recently, after the cross-chain bridge incident, people started talking about the "wait for confirmation" consensus, but the underlying mechanism is pretty much the same: what you think is an instant transfer is actually a bunch of nodes shouting to each other, "I see it" and "I see it too," only daring to tell you it's settled after enough confirmations.

My current mindset is a bit like a version update log: v1.0 believed the official docs, v2.0 started tracing on my own, v3.0 admits that most "anomalies" are just me not understanding the path. Haven't upgraded to v4.0 yet, so this is it for now.