The past two days, people have been talking about parallelism and sharding again—the narrative has been pretty lively—but after watching the chain for a long time myself, I’ve cooled down a bit. No matter how loud the performance hype is, in the end it still comes down to where your assets are, and if something really goes wrong, how do you get out. Put simply, if the exit paths aren’t smooth (bridges, routing, permissions, front-end), then no matter how fast it is, it’s useless.

Lately, hardware wallets have been out of stock again. In the group, phishing links keep coming one after another. Everyone’s security awareness has improved, but it’s also easy to get anxious and click around carelessly. Even my roommate complained to me: “What’s the use of these data? Don’t forget to copy down the seed phrase first.” Fine—getting called out like that is pretty real… Anyway, I’d rather mess with it one or two fewer steps than try to save trouble by stuffing the risk into some button you can’t see. That’s it for now.