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Spent all night checking on-chain data, and sandwich bots have taken things to a whole new level again this month. I used to think arbitrage was free money, but now it feels more like paying miners protection money—the slippage you calculate, they’re already waiting for you in the next block.
Put simply, with MEV, retail traders entering the game are just donating fees. These days I play it pretty safe: small positions, low leverage, and hard slippage limits. I’d rather miss an opportunity than get sandwiched. It’s not like there’s only one path on-chain anyway.
The NFT royalty situation feels

When group messages hit 99+, I actually turn off notifications.
Lately, I keep seeing screenshots of large on-chain transfers, with arrows labeled “smart money is moving,” and the group instantly gets flooded. But when I click in, it’s often just exchanges moving funds between hot and cold wallets, or an institution unwinding a position—is that really a signal?
To be honest, I think FOMO from group members is even more dangerous than KOL calls. At least a KOL has a profile picture and a track record; group messages are an anonymous amplifier of anxiety: “Hurry,” “Get in,” “Last seat on the bus

I recently went through the wallets across several chains again and realized that, without noticing, I already have seven addresses: Ethereum mainnet, arb, op, base, solana, plus two testnets—I’ve forgotten whether they have any balances.
Whenever I want to check my total assets, I have to switch between four or five browser tabs. It’s a pain. I tried an aggregated dashboard before, but it always felt like it required too many authorizations, so I gave up and went back to keeping track manually.
Now I’ve come up with a clumsy workaround: every Sunday night, I set aside half an hour to enter th

Results are just noise; the process is the signal. This is worth printing out and putting up in front of your screen.

I just helped a friend check his cold wallet. He had taken a photo of his seed phrase and saved it in his phone’s photo album, and he also had iCloud sync enabled. I asked him why, and he said screenshots made it convenient to view. I didn’t know what to say.
For something like a seed phrase, writing it on paper and keeping it in a drawer is still better than storing it on your phone. This may sound like an old cliché, but you really do hear about similar incidents every year. And signature approvals are even worse. Most people honestly can’t understand what the wallet pop-up says, or simply d

The chain was insanely congested just now. One transaction sat in the mempool for nearly twenty minutes, and watching gas inch upward was so frustrating that I almost hit speed up. Then I thought about it: it’s the same with price movements. Congestion is temporary, but if you panic and cut the line, the slippage and fees are real costs recorded on the books. I’ve gotten used to seeing moments like this as tides too: when the tide is coming in, don’t rush to chase the waves; when it goes out, the path is actually easier.
Lately, everyone’s been talking about rate-cut expectations and the U.S.

I just saw someone talking about block builders and things like bundles. Honestly, retail users don’t really need to dig too deep. Just know how it affects your trades—for example, some bundles can run your order ahead of time, or your limit orders might get “sniped” and run first. Anyway, when I look at on-chain transactions, I only focus on slippage and gas consumption—the details are left to the tools to calculate.
In that recent testnet where they were doing points, it felt like everyone started getting anxious again about “missing out and losing.” But in reality, many projects pile on pre

Just finished scrolling a few groups and found everyone is cursing KOLs for calling out trades to hype the market rhythm, while also complaining about how miners/validators’ earnings look so ugly. Honestly, I totally understand that impulse you get when you’re carried away… I’ve caught that bug myself too. Someone in a group posted a screenshot of MEV revenue from a certain protocol, and in a moment of heat I threw my spare money into it. So what happened? After two days, I calculated it carefully—after subtracting gas and slippage, the annualized return wasn’t even higher than a regular savin

Recently I’ve been scrolling L2 Twitter, and it’s all comparisons—TPS, subsidies—honestly it’s a bit exhausting to keep up. In any case, I can’t really tell who’s more impressive. And as for me, the little bit of gas fees in my wallet—I should save them, that’s what I’ll do.
Back to modular blockchains: what exactly changes for ordinary users like us? From my own experience, it’s just one word—slow. With the DA layer, settlement layer, and execution layer broken down so finely, sending a transfer means waiting for confirmations across multiple chains. Sometimes it even gets stuck in the middle

Just looked at the data again—this round of restaking attention is pretty high. To put it simply, the source of LST yield is basically two ends profiting: one is the annualized yield from the underlying staked Ethereum, and the other is the extra incentives provided by the top-layer protocol. But the risks are also pretty well hidden—protocol vulnerabilities, validator penalties, and liquidity losing its peg are all things you have to figure out for yourself. Lately everyone’s been talking about rate cuts; the US Dollar Index moves along with risk assets, and it’s made me a bit hesitant about

Recently, I’ve seen a lot of people talking about PFPs and membership cards—ultimately, it comes down to whether it’s long-term value or short-term attention. I’ve been stuck thinking about it myself, too.
Honestly, many projects, right from the start, just post a picture or put together a membership system; once the hype fades, nobody manages it anymore. It feels like they’re mainly riding a wave of attention. But on the other hand, if the brand itself has ongoing services or governance rights—for example, some DeFi projects distribute revenue based on membership—then it really could generate

Just saw people in the group talking again about new L1s offering incentives. The old users are venting about “taking, then selling for extraction”—it really makes me reflect. I used to love chasing hot topics too: whichever pool had the highest APR, I’d rush into it. In the end, I always entered at the peak and exited at the low, getting repeatedly harvested. Later, I scaled my goal down—I stopped thinking about getting rich overnight, and instead kept going longer. To put it plainly, my energy is limited, and even my attention has a cost. Switching chains back and forth and researching new p

To be honest, when talking about MEV, I actually find the whole on-chain “cutting in line” thing pretty interesting. Recently, I’ve been seeing L2s compete with each other on TPS and fees, but the MEV issues brought about by centralized sequencers are actually more hidden—you never know how many times a transaction gets inserted. I’ve been hit by sandwich attacks a few times myself; once the profit gets eaten, my mindset stabilizes instead: don’t always think about trying to run ahead—think about how to prevent getting run. That’s it for now, and I also want to vent a bit about those who keep

Just saw that the locked amount in a certain stablecoin pool has risen quite a bit again, and honestly, it’s making me feel a little restless.
To put it simply: every time I see talk about reserve transparency and redemptions, I’m reminded of last year during the de-pegging period. Everyone was staring at on-chain data so closely that their eyes almost went blind. Now the transparency is better, but that psychological thing can’t be changed— the more you feel like you can make an early exit, the more you want to rush in and have a quick feel of it.
Why am I getting itchy? Because I always have

I’m not very good at sifting useful info out of hundreds of unread messages, especially when the group keeps forwarding KOL screenshots with emotions whipped up like a wave. Honestly, I’m really annoyed by that “if you don’t rush in now, it’ll be gone” talk—it just makes people itch to hit buy. In any case, I’m more inclined to trust my own charts. When funding rates are that extreme, and the community is unanimously yelling either reversal or “keep the hype going,” I’d rather stop and figure out the risk exposure, set a point to retreat, and go from there. That’s it for now—if I make an impul

At the weekend recap, I ended up flipping through a bunch of take-profit orders and stop-loss orders again—the contrast was just too obvious. In the take-profit trade, I kept dragging and didn’t close, and in the end I gave back more than half of the profit. In the stop-loss trade, I hesitated for a few minutes at the time, and the result was losing more than a dozen percentage points. Later I figured it out: stopping out is a lot like breaking up—you only make it more painful by dragging it out. Realizing the loss early actually saves on interest. I wrote myself one line in my notes: Stop-los

Recently I’ve been looking at a few PFP projects that are offering membership benefits, and honestly I’m a bit confused. Their brand stories are told really beautifully, but when you take them apart, isn’t it just wrapping attention as long-term value? Short-term hype can definitely bring a wave of traction, but if there aren’t real use cases to back it up, it ultimately risks turning into musical chairs. The controversy around that re-staking “nesting dolls” is similar: stacking multiple security layers sounds cool, but once the returns are compounded, how do you quantify the risk? In my view

Lately I’ve been getting a bit too into MEV-related stuff. Honestly, in the past I always felt that “cutting in line” was pretty far away from me—anyway, my trading volume isn’t that big. But when I think it through, on-chain ordering is really subtle. Especially when you place an order and suddenly your slippage gets bigger, or the execution price ends up off from what you expected by a wide margin—what’s behind it might be someone else causing trouble. I’m used to treating profit fluctuations like tides, but slippage as an implicit cost really should be quantified.
I’ve also been thinking ab

I just came across a comparison post between RWA and U.S. Treasury yield rates, and under it, a bunch of people were excitedly shouting, “On-chain yields will totally outdo traditional ones.” Honestly, my first reaction was to check that project’s GitHub and audit reports—not that I’m a big shot, but the more you look, the more a few small details can help you filter out 80% of the traps.
I usually start by checking the audit report for any “critical” or “high-risk” vulnerabilities. If there aren’t any, then I scan the address and timing of the upgraded multisig. If the multisig address was ju