I just farmed a few more on-chain interactions today—snatching airdrops is really physical work. Lately, the group chat has been constantly spamming pledge unlocks and token unlock calendars, making everyone a bit anxious, as if every unlock is a sell-pressure bomb. As for me, I stick to my own pace: I track gas every day, make spreadsheets, and slowly accumulate.

When it comes to terms like data availability, ordering, and finality, I was also fooled at first. In reality, it’s just queuing, recording, and stamping. Data availability, put simply, is whether on-chain data can be looked up at any time. Ordering is who comes first and who comes after. Finality means that once a transaction is confirmed, it can’t be changed. A lot of L2s nowadays build their own DA layers too. I can’t be bothered to memorize the jargon—during interactions, I just take another look at the transaction status. If it stays pending too long or keeps getting rolled back, then the project has to be handled with extra caution.

For safety, I’d rather spend a bit more time: before every interaction, I go to the contract explorer and scan the code. I may not be able to understand all of it, but at least I can check whether there are any common vulnerability functions, or whether there are audit indicators. After the transaction is confirmed, I wait for a few more blocks, and then I don’t rush to continue. Moving slower is better than getting hacked—after all, what I’m farming is income, not betting my life.