A brother asked me: should trading go through Layer 2 or the mainnet? Honestly, I’ve been annoyed by this too lately. Layer 2 is definitely cheaper, but the slippage is like a roller coaster—sometimes you save a few dozen dollars in gas, and then you get eaten for several hundred dollars by arbitrage bots. It’s a huge loss. The mainnet is stable, but when gas fees spike, you just want to curse—especially now that funding rates are extremely out of whack. People in the group are discussing whether it’s a reversal or whether they’ll keep squeezing the bubble. Anyway, I can’t be bothered to guess. I only care whether my positions can hold up.

To put it simply: if you’re doing swing trades with big capital, don’t bother saving that bit of gas—go straight to the mainnet. At least the liquidation experience is better, even if it’s not exactly “fair,” you know who you’re actually playing against. If you’re small capital and just want speed, then Layer 2 is workable. But don’t touch pools with liquidity that’s ridiculously bad, otherwise you can’t even get out of take-profit orders. In my view, you have to find your own balance between “security” and fees. Don’t expect to get the benefits from both sides—this market doesn’t have that kind of good deal.

No side-taking, only backing cash flow. In my opinion, if you want to save on gas, first see whether you can actually withstand slippage. If you can’t, don’t pretend you’re broke.