Just woke up and saw a bunch of people talking about re-staking and shared security, and they even flooded the testnet. On their mouths, it’s all “stack a few more layers for more yield.” To put it plainly, what you’re stacking most of the time isn’t yield—it’s a stack of risk buffs: the same pot of collateral gets used by multiple chains/services to “endorse” it. Once one link goes wrong, the chopping won’t necessarily follow the exact path you had in mind; it could trigger a chain reaction.

And that kind of expectation—“run the testnet first to earn points, and the mainnet will definitely issue tokens”... I’m not saying it’s definitely not possible, but treating airdrops like a yield model is pretty magical. They don’t look at details like transaction fees, settlement, and penalty conditions—only APY or the points progress bar. In the end, it’s basically using your own time and principal to let other people run security experiments. Anyway, I frown at the two characters “stacking” now.