Back in 2021, I lost about 3 ETH in gas fees just trying to compound some stupid food-token farm on Ethereum mainnet. It was brutal. I remember sitting there at 3 AM watching the gwei hit 200, feeling like an absolute clown while my yield got eaten alive. That was the turning point for me. I realized mainnet is basically a playground for whales who do not care about a hundred-dollar transaction fee, and smaller capital players need to adapt or get priced out. If you guys are still trying to run complex leverage loops on mainnet Aave, you are doing it wrong. The real play right now is taking wrapped liquid staking tokens like wstETH or rETH over to Arbitrum, throwing them into Silo Finance, borrowing ETH against it, and looping that back into more LSTs. Because the gas fees on L2s are literally pennies, you can auto-compound this loop multiple times a day using yield aggregators without burning your principal in transaction costs. I have been running a 4x loop on wstETH/ETH on Arbitrum for the last three months. Everyone keeps whining about impermanent loss or smart contract risk, but honestly, if you are not willing to take a little contract risk, you should not even be in DeFi. The spread between the staking yield and the borrow rate is tight, but when you leverage it, you are easily pulling high double-digit net APY on native ETH, not some inflationary governance token that is going to dump to zero in a week. Just keep an eye on your health factor. I almost got liquidated during that flash crash last Tuesday because I was too busy making a sandwich to monitor my screen, but that is just the cost of doing business.