Today, as the market was about to close, I stared at the screen in a daze for a while. It's not that the market is bad, but that familiar sense of powerlessness has returned. Doing on-chain transactions is so slow that you can watch your position being consumed by slippage and latency; going to a CEX is faster, but the funds are in someone else's hands, and I always feel like something might go wrong one day when I wake up. I've walked both paths, and to be honest, neither is perfect. It wasn't until recently that I started to use it seriously.