When reviewing a project lately, I don’t even look at the PPT first—the noise is too loud, and it almost blinds your eyes… Newbies want to “test credibility,” and I usually focus on three things: on GitHub, don’t just look at stars—check recent commits to see whether people are really doing work, and see whether bug reports have responses; in audit reports, don’t just screenshot the logo—look at the scope/version number and whether any known issues have been fixed; when it comes to upgrading permissions, that’s the most critical part—who signs in a multi-sig, how many signatures are required, and whether there’s any delay. Don’t use a single key and try to change whatever you want.

After the cross-chain bridge being stolen again, I’m even more convinced: permissions and the upgrade process matter far more than the “narrative.” Also, during the oracle anomaly, everyone was shouting “wait for confirmation”—to put it plainly, they’re afraid of taking one wrong step into a trap.

As for the noise-reduction strategy, it’s just one sentence: only track the three lines of “code updates + permission changes + incident reviews,” and treat everything else as background noise. After all, it’s annoying to say out loud, but I’ll still go back and check a couple of times manually.