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Looking at the new protocol, I’m too lazy to check Twitter buzz first, so I’ll look at GitHub: It’s not about understanding the code details, but about the update frequency, whether issues are genuinely being raised, and if the maintainers respond. Coupled with audit reports, don’t blindly believe “approval = security,” I care more about whether the boundaries are clearly written: which modules are not covered, which risks are “known but launched first.” The most important thing is upgrade permissions—who signs, what’s the threshold, is there a timelock (giving you reaction time), otherwise, it’s basically just an admin changing rules with one click. Recently, ETF fund flows and US stock market risk appetite have been used to explain crypto market rises and falls, which sounds pretty mysterious to me… Anyway, I still rely on these hard facts to assess project credibility, so I feel more at ease.