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These days I've been seeing a lot of chatter about parallel processing and sharding, honestly I get a bit itchy too, mainly because of that feeling of "everyone's talking about it, did I miss something" FOMO that kicks in, making me want to click around on on-chain data to find some certainty. But as I keep looking, I calm down again: throughput and costs look good, of course that's appealing, but the old questions still remain—where are the assets stored, can they be withdrawn, what if bridges and contracts malfunction, if the exit routes aren't clear, even if it's fast, there's still some doubt.
By the way, the NFT royalty war also involved a lot of trash talk—creators want income, secondary markets want liquidity, basically it's all about "who's going to pay the bill." I'm now more concerned about whether the rules can be enforced long-term, whether the market will suddenly change its stance... Anyway, first figure out the risk controls and exit strategies, then slowly watch the show.