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These past few days, I've been feeling a bit awkward about governance voting: everyone talks about decentralization, but in practice, it's all delegated voting, just handing over control to a few "big whale representatives" with a single click. Honestly, who are governance tokens really governing... As a laid-back observer, I occasionally click in to check the voting page, and it feels more like handing the microphone to oligarchs.
The group is still repeatedly discussing stablecoin regulation, reserve audits, and various rumors about "losing the peg," and the emotions are getting whipped up. The more these situations happen, the more you can see: only a few people truly have the authority to make decisions, while most are just sharing and anxious. Anyway, I'll keep an eye on TVL first, watch the complex strategies without jumping in, to avoid getting dizzy from wagging my tail.