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Lately, I've been browsing yield aggregator pages, and the APY looks pretty attractive, but my first reaction isn't "go for it," but rather to check where exactly the money is being funneled: which pools it's entering, whether there's a lending layer involved, who wrote the underlying contracts, who holds the upgrade permissions... In other words, the APY is just the cover, underneath are all the contracts and counterparties.
I'm thinking: is the yield really "given by the platform"?
No, it's basically earned by taking on certain risks for others.
Especially these past couple of days, with the main public chain planning to upgrade/maintain, and everyone in the group speculating whether the ecosystem will migrate, I'm actually more worried about the cross-chain/route-switching of the aggregator: addresses, authorizations, strategy switches—any small mistake in these steps can be hard to detect immediately. Anyway, right now I only have two main tasks: calculating the fees precisely and dividing addresses. If I can't earn, I might as well buy peace of mind. That's it for now.