Just muted the group chat—everything is a lot quieter now. I used to keep notifications on, but it was all people bickering and ads, while the truly useful data got drowned out. Lately, when I’ve been doing on-chain testing, I keep running into that “lags for a second” kind of issue. At first, I thought it was my own network, but later I realized it’s because the indexer is updating slowly, or the RPC is being rate-limited—either way, you want to check a trading pair’s slippage, and Subgraph still returns data from ten minutes ago. 🌚

Especially when running on smaller chains: there are fewer nodes, so just wait first. But once you get used to it, it’s actually not that bad—like forced to slow down so I can take another look at routing depth. Don’t rush into a fiasco.

Speaking of that, the whole recent set of “restaking again” and “shared security” has gotten way too complicated. It’s a nesting doll situation—layer after layer—while rewards stack on top of rewards, and it makes my head feel crowded. I’m just going to take a little bit of coins to try it out first; if I lose, I won’t really care. That’s it for now—I’ll keep watching my slippage.