Recently, people have been talking about modular blockchains, and honestly, the changes I as a end-user feel... aren’t that mysterious. In the past, I only cared about “Can this chain be used, is gas expensive, will it lag,” now there’s an extra layer of anxiety: who’s actually executing and managing the data behind the same operation? After bridging around, a slight delay makes me start imagining “Don’t give me a rollback or withdrawal freeze.”

But it’s not without benefits; the costs look better, and the interaction threshold seems a bit lower (at least I dare to try a few more times). It’s just that the experience hasn’t become “simpler,” it’s become more like a patchwork: runs pretty fast, but it’s hard to pinpoint what’s wrong when it breaks.

The kind of inflation + studio + coin price spiral crash in blockchain games, I now see as an old problem that modularization can’t fix: no matter how the underlying layers are split, the economic model can’t hold up, and users are ultimately still being educated... Anyway, I now think about things 30 seconds longer before placing an order, but I still often miss the rise. Forget it.