These days I’ve seen people complain again about miners/validators eating too much, MEV sorting like a blind box, retail investors always a step behind... Honestly, I’m annoyed too, but what’s even more frustrating is those moments on cross-chain bridges where it seems like you’ve arrived but actually haven’t.

The terms like multi-signature and oracle sound fancy, but for ourselves it’s just: who do you trust, and can you stop in time if something goes wrong? No matter how many signatures, you’re still worried about a group of people in the same pot; no matter how fast the oracle, it can still be fed fake data. The simplest way is still “wait for confirmation,” don’t complain about slow, slow is giving yourself a window to back out: once it’s truly final on-chain, and the other side has really minted it, then move to the next step.

Recently, I got stuck on a bridge for over ten minutes, I was already reaching to uninstall the wallet, all I could think was “Forget it, I’m done playing.” But I still pulled my hand back: I’d rather do one less trade than add to my position in uncertainty. Staying alive is just this boring.