Honestly, it’s only when I’m cleaning up my accounts at year-end that I understand what “why didn’t you do it earlier” really means. I’ve got a bit of OCD: I keep an Excel for every interaction, including gas fees, time, chain name, and notes—everything laid out. But honestly, what I hate most is cross-chain bridges and LP pools, like liquidity mining setups. Price volatility and fees get mixed together, and when you try to calculate it all at year-end, it really drives you crazy.

Recently, in the group chat, people keep talking about stablecoins losing their peg and reserve audits. I don’t really understand it either, but coincidentally I’m organizing my USDT and USDC in-and-out records, so I added a notes column. I even put something like “whether reserves are transparent / whether there’s been any depegging in history.” In the end, it’s just a personal habit—I’m not aiming for precision.

Also, don’t skimp on screenshots—especially the pages after you finish on-chain operations. Save them to a cloud drive; even if the screenshots look ugly, it’s still better than digging through browser history for half a day.

That’s it for now—back to farming yield. Anxiety is anxiety, but if the books are kept, you’ll cry less at year-end.