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At 2:30 AM, still analyzing data on the chain, recently the narrative around parallelization/sharding has indeed been lively, with modularization and the DA layer also being hyped up, making developers excited. But on the user side, it's basically: huh? What does this have to do with me... Frankly, no matter how good the performance is, it can't solve the two old problems: asset security and exit pathways.
When I look at new projects now, I don't care how high their TPS is first. I ask myself three questions: where are the assets stored, how to withdraw if something goes wrong, and who is controlling the bridge/multi-signature/upgrade permissions. When the market is hot, everyone defaults to "I can sell later," but when emotional turning points arrive, liquidity shrinks, cross-chain traffic stalls, and you realize that exiting is much harder than entering. Anyway, I prefer to go slow and first understand all the ways to exit safely.