These days, I've come across a bunch of discussions about "re-pledging/sharing security/compound yields" again, and it's getting as heated as a religious war... I don't take sides, more of a conditioned reflex: whenever a hot topic changes its shell, people's attention is pulled away, and their wallets are pretty much the same.

My own simple method to avoid being repeatedly exploited: when I see phrases like "can add another layer of yield," I pause for three seconds first, then check where the earliest transactions on the chain came from, how the funds flowed into the contract, and who is continuously withdrawing. To put it plainly, truly valuable things won't rely on trending searches to survive every day; the more you need to keep an eye on it, keep sharing, and keep adding to your position, the more it feels like you're just paying for a ticket. Anyway, I now prefer to miss out rather than be just another "sample number" in someone else's timeline.