I'm now looking at the project "credibility" and no longer dare to just listen to empty talk, especially since recently cross-chain bridges have been hacked again, and oracles report outrageous prices, and everyone is just "waiting for confirmation." Frankly, trust is something that is built through experience.

I'm still in patch mode when it comes to beginners: first, go check GitHub, not expecting to understand the code, at least see if updates are continuous, if there are a bunch of temporary changes, or if anyone raises risks in issues and is just pretending to be dead. Don't treat audit reports as a talisman; look at what scope they audited, whether there are high-risk items, and whether the actual changes were made (preferably matching the commit records). Upgrading multi-signature setups is even more critical: who are the signers, what is the threshold, is there a timelock, and can it turn your position into a "psychological case" overnight? Anyway, I now treat my system as fragile; if I can patch it, I patch it first. Small fixes are better than toughing it out.