Recently, there's been a renewed push for parallel processing and sharding, talking about throughput taking off and a silky smooth experience... Fine, I don't oppose the chain being fast or slow, but don't forget "how to exit" when you're excited. Frankly, when real trouble hits, whether you can smoothly swap your positions into the assets you want, or withdraw them, is the real benchmark. If liquidity is thinner and routing takes a couple of extra steps, slippage will teach you a lesson—don't just look at the panel's TPS.

Moreover, lately some places are tightening or loosening taxes and compliance rules intermittently; the first thing affected isn't technical narratives but people's psychological expectations for deposits and withdrawals: panic leads to runs, and runs lead to even more slippage and congestion. It's lively, but for now, I check whether projects have backup plans for "bridges / cross-chain / withdrawal channels." If the safety boundaries are vaguely written, forget it, I won't touch it.