I just went through the wallet again—on ETH, on Arbitrum (arb), on Optimism (op), on Polygon (matic), and a few leftover fragments of tokens on some unknown chains. It feels like I’m playing Lianliankan. Honestly, in the multi-chain era, asset fragmentation is really annoying. After every cross-chain transfer, I’m afraid I’ll miss something; I check several times just to feel at ease.

I set rules for myself: don’t touch anything if you don’t have to. Put assets on the main chain back into the main chain; on smaller chains, only keep the gas and whatever I truly need—everything else gets cleared out. Since on-chain liquidity has been split into this kind of mess, managing it across multiple chains only increases the chance of mistakes. Us regular folks should just bother with it as little as possible.

Recently I’ve been watching that NFT royalty drama. Both sides are arguing fiercely, but in reality, when floor prices drop, who cares about a few percentage points of royalties? On-chain liquidity itself is already broken into pieces; creators’ royalties are only one of the pain points.