The attention economy is just too intense in the crypto world. When the hot topic changes, the timeline feels like it’s been reset, and the pits from the previous wave get “automatically forgotten” along with it. My current clumsy method is: for any project, don’t look at profit screenshots first—ask yourself two questions: what permissions is it asking for? Worst case is: “the permissions are still there, but the assets aren’t,” or “lose a little on fees”? Put plainly, only after you’ve calculated your maximum loss limit are you qualified to talk about gains.

Recently, things like re-staking, shared security, and layered yield—being criticized as “nested dolls”—don’t seem that controversial to me either. The question is whether security is truly being shared, or whether it’s being diluted. When the returns stack layer by layer, the risks stack too—only they’re hidden deeper… In any case, I’d rather earn a bit less than risk a piece of messy authorization that means I’ll wake up every day later, flipping through audit reports to figure out exactly what I signed.