Last night before bed, I saw new L1/L2 incentives being released again. In the group, people were rushing to interact while complaining, "Mining, selling," I was a bit anxious but still wanted to clarify the main points first: what you do on the chain needs a place to store it (data availability, don't lose it or pay an outrageous price), then someone records transactions in order (sequencing, who goes first or second affects your trades/being front-run), and finally, it has to be truly finalized (finality, don’t think that just because a block is produced, it’s stable). To put it simply, whether airdrops are real or not is another matter; first, look at who’s doing these three things, who bears the costs, and how likely it is to fail… I’d rather interact a few times less now than risk touching those “spectacular but ultimately delayed” finality issues just to save some gas. Anyway, taking it slow is just paying tuition.