Back in the DeFi Summer days, your wallet used to have only ETH and a few LP pools—open MetaMask and you could see everything at a glance. Now? Mainnet, Arb, Base, Sol—phone wallets, extension wallets, hardware wallets... your assets are scattered the way you used to tune a radio. Turn the dial and you get one station, turn it again and you get another—and sometimes you even forget which address still has something tucked away in it.

Recently, I’ve been watching that whole restaking narrative: yield stacking on yield. Some call it a nesting doll, others a flywheel. As for me, I just don’t want the wallet to “nest” me first. My approach is pretty simple, if a bit clumsy: for each chain, I keep one main address. For small amounts, I set aside a separate “fireworks wallet”—if it goes off and runs out, I don’t mind. As for the rest, I export tables regularly. It’s ugly, but it’s more reliable than keeping account in my head.

To put it plainly, what I’ve learned in the multi-chain era isn’t a technique—it’s admitting that I can’t remember everything, conceding first, and then archiving it.