These days, I’m learning to “wait” when shopping… waiting for confirmation, waiting for callbacks, waiting until I think things through.

When a newbie checks a project’s credibility, I don’t pretend to understand everything; I first look at GitHub: it’s not about how many stars it has, mainly whether someone is actually working on it recently, whether the people submitting PRs are just one or two, and whether the upgrade records are clear.
Then I look at the audit reports; honestly, I focus on three things: who audited it, whether the audit version matches the current one, and whether the issues found have been fixed afterward (don’t just post a PDF and call it a day).
Multi-signature upgrades are even more critical—who signs, how many people, who they are, and whether rules can be suddenly changed…
Recently, the noise around privacy coins/mixing coins has been giving me a headache, which made me realize that the term “compliance boundary” is not just for show.
Anyway, I hold small positions and prefer to be a bit slower; I’d rather miss out than get confused by a wave of upgrades.