Recently, there's been talk about sharding and parallel processing again, and it seems everyone is pretty excited, saying throughput has increased and the experience is smoother... But as someone who’s always afraid of the bridge falling into the water, my first reaction is: when it’s really time to withdraw money, will the route be open or blocked, and who will take the blame? Honestly, no matter how lively the performance narrative is, the exit strategy is the lifeline.

On the macro side, expectations of interest rate cuts fluctuate between strong and weak, and the discussion about the US dollar index rising and falling together with risk assets is also quite surreal. The more tangled these emotions are, the less I want to gamble on “nothing going wrong” with new chains and bridges. My current approach is very simple: only use bridges whose security models I understand, split the amount into smaller parts, try withdrawing in advance, and keep some mainnet gas reserved—just to buy some peace of mind.