Today I’ve decided to pause for now—don’t let me automatically get FOMO the moment I see terms like “data availability / ordering / finality.” To put it bluntly, it’s enough to focus on one line of thinking: do you believe this transaction will truly “check out” in the end, and whether someone will cut in line and get ahead of you in the middle. Data availability is whether you can actually pull the records up and verify them. Ordering is whether there’s any funny business in who goes first and who goes next. Finality is whether it won’t go wrong again two days later—whether it won’t end up reverting and everything falling apart.

Recently, the staking unlocks and the token unlock calendar have been getting refreshed nonstop, and I also have sell-pressure anxiety—but for now I’d rather stop checking the calendar. I’m going to go look first at how the on-chain addresses are moving. At least that gives someone like me—always arriving late—a reason to say, “I’m not just blindly charging in.” Anyway, my mouth can be stubborn, and my hands are even more stubborn—but for today, I’ll stop.