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These days I’ve been seeing everyone talk about re-staking and shared security, basically taking the same “sense of security” and using it for multiple jobs. The compounded returns look pretty tempting, but I always feel like the illusion is stacking up too... Especially when many protocols write risks in very small print, if you don’t pay attention, it’s as if they don’t exist.
Recently, ETF capital flows and U.S. stock market risk appetite have been brought up again as a “cryptocurrency rise and fall indicator,” and I find it a bit funny: when the external trend shifts, these layered DeFi protocols on-chain might not have time to land safely. Anyway, I still stick to my old habits—small positions for testing, taking profits in batches, and if Gas fees are too outrageous, I simply don’t move. Just trying to stay alive first.