When evaluating whether a project is "reliable or not," I’m now too lazy to listen to grand narratives. I focus on three things: Is there someone really working on GitHub (not just changing a README and calling it an update), does the audit report mention "what was changed, what are the risks, what wasn’t covered," and who actually holds the upgrade permissions—multi-signature looks good, but if the signers are the same group of people and there’s no delay mechanism, it’s basically the same as a single point of failure.

For beginners wanting to keep it simple, just ask: Can it give you time to react before something goes wrong? Especially now, with some places tightening or loosening taxes and compliance rules, and deposit and withdrawal expectations constantly shifting, people tend to get anxious. I actually prefer protocols that say “it’s okay to be slow, but don’t suddenly cut me off,”… Anyway, I just watch how they change things from the sidelines, and only trust it when it’s really stable.