Recently, parallel processing and sharding have been the hot topics of discussion, with a bunch of people in the group focusing on testnet incentives, points, and guessing whether the mainnet will issue tokens... I’ve stopped trying to explain and just accept randomness. To put it simply, no matter how innovative the narrative, in the end, it’s about two things: whether the assets are safe and how I can exit.

Now I see projects more like doing backtesting: first, write down the “worst-case scenario” on paper—whether private keys/authorizations are leaked, whether cross-chain bridges/contracts are newly written, whether liquidity is thin, and which route I’ll take to withdraw if something really goes wrong. Even if the points are attractive, if the exit path isn’t clear, it’s hard to sleep well. So tonight, I might as well go pet cats to reduce noise.