Recently, everyone has been talking about sharding and parallelism, making the narrative very lively, saying that the chain is faster and opportunities are more abundant. But for someone like me, my first reaction is still: where are the assets stored, who holds the permissions, and how to exit if something goes wrong. Later, I thought it was quite funny— the newer the technical terms, the easier it is for people to forget the oldest question: can you withdraw, and if you do, will you get stuck.

Social mining, fan tokens, that set of "attention equals mining" sounds pretty exciting, but what I care more about is whether the exit route is just to sell to the next attention grabber. Anyway, when I look at projects now, I first check the contract permissions and minting access, then look at liquidity and unlocking schedules. It’s lively, but don’t lock yourself into a script written by others.