The feeling of being three steps from the liquidation line—right up to the red line—is genuinely funny and infuriating: you clearly chose the leverage yourself, yet your heartbeat feels like someone hit the accelerator button… I usually start with the least technically demanding thing: pay back a little of the borrowed amount on that side, or add a bit of the least painful collateral. My goal is simple—pull the health score back from “any moment you’ll social-media-expose yourself” to “still able to act dead.” Then make sure auto-repayment / reminders are turned on—don’t count on your own discipline to keep watching the chart.

Recently, that mainstream public chain isn’t upgrading, right? Everyone in the group is already guessing whether the project will migrate. So I’m even less willing to sit on the red line—what if the chain hiccups around maintenance and I can’t add more even if I want to? The liquidation robot doesn’t care about your feelings. Anyway, like me who just picks up scraps, my life is worth more than my pride—live first, then slowly pick things up later.