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I once tried taking the staked assets I had and re-staking them, hoping to see if "shared security" could serve as a second layer of insurance. The backtest showed the profit curve stacking up quite smoothly, but only after going live did I realize that the risks are also stacking up—just not usually visible to you: on one side is the penalties and confiscations from the underlying validation, and on the other side are the protocol rules, upgrades, and governance votes, any of which could cause a chain reaction. To put it simply, when profits are stacking, it's easy to also unconsciously stack "certainty" in your mind... but it's all an illusion. Recently, the NFT royalty disputes also seem quite similar—everyone wants to earn more, but when liquidity tightens, no one ends up comfortable. Anyway, after that experiment, I decided to be more cautious; I'd rather earn less and sleep well.