Lately I've been looking into re-staking/shared security again, basically it's "using the same trust multiple times for collateral to earn returns." The compounded returns are very tempting, but I always feel like the illusion also stacks: no matter how beautifully the upper-layer protocol is written, if the underlying layer has an issue, everything will shake together.

Now I think of this with a "backup" mindset: backups are for redundancy, but if you also use backups for other tasks, and in the end both the main and backup systems fail together, what do you call that—redundancy? Anyway, as a newbie, I prefer to avoid chasing that extra gain, and rather take it slow.

Recently, on-chain data tools and tagging systems have been criticized for being laggy or misleading, and I can understand that: looking at token distribution and address tags is useful, but don’t take it as gospel. Look at multiple sources, and factor in "uncertainty" as part of the risk—just do it this way for now.