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The word “modularization” sounds very academic, but for us end users, it basically comes down to this: in the future, you probably won’t need to keep staring at whether “this chain is clogged today” or whether Gas will suddenly take off. It’s more like an app swapping in a different set of pipelines in the background—once you hit confirm, it’s the same as hitting confirm again. The difference might be that cross-chain / cross-layer activity will be more frequent, assets will be moving all over the place, and if the experience isn’t done well, it’ll have that “coffee grounds” kind of vibe: fees broken into small pieces, slow arrivals, and having to sign a whole bunch of stuff.
After that recent upgrade/maintenance on a major mainstream public chain, people in the group were also speculating whether the ecosystem might all pack up and move… I feel it’s most likely “the more multi-homed, the better”—wherever users are and wherever liquidity is, projects will shift a bit in that direction.
When I provide liquidity myself, I trust data more. Intuition can be wrong, but data at least lets you smell that bitterness of impermanent loss early. Anyway, first make the position size small—being able to sleep well is what matters most.