I was really dumb just now… When topping up some on-chain transaction fees, I accidentally slipped when copying the address and pasted the previous one from the clipboard instead of the new one. I almost sent it to a stranger’s contract. Thankfully, I have the habit of checking permissions and the recipient first—I paused for two seconds before I realized something was off, and my heart rate immediately shot up. To be blunt, in moments like that, what you instinctively think is: no matter how great the creator economy is hyped up, at the end of the day it’s still all about “who can control the flow of money.”

Lately, the debate over secondary market royalties has been pretty heated, but I’m actually a bit cold about it. Royalties aren’t something you can’t collect, but don’t turn it into moral coercion or force things with blacklists—otherwise it ends up as an on/off permissions switch that the platform/contract controls. And creators might not be genuinely safer in the end either. Anyway, when I look at new protocols now, I first go through permissions, update/replace the permission keys, see whether the rules can be changed at any time, and then only afterward look at the narrative.

Also, the privacy coins, mixing, and compliance boundaries in the group are being torn apart badly… I can understand the need for privacy, but once the interface is made “default suspicious,” the first people to get caught in the crossfire are still ordinary users and small creators. That’s it for now—I’ve been taught by myself again today.