When the network is congested, what I feel most strongly isn't “slow”—it’s that helpless feeling of getting queued in the mempool while someone cuts in line… You think once you’ve sent it, you’re done, but really, transactions are like taking a number and waiting to be called: miners/packagers only care who offers the more attractive tip. If your bid isn’t enough, it just keeps hanging there—if it stays too long, it may get bumped out, expire, or if you get anxious, you might send another transaction and end up turning your own transactions into a “battle” with each other. And not to mention, some bots watch your slippage and then casually grab a little.

Recently, someone has been comparing RWA and US Treasury yields to on-chain yield products. I just want to say: no matter how “stable” the returns are written, the cost and time of the transaction you exit during real congestion are hidden terms—nobody will mark them in red for you.

That’s it for now. I’ll clear the authorizations of a few old dApps first, so I don’t end up getting stuck one day and having to pay tuition fees.