Lately, there's been a lot of talk about parallel processing and sharding, and the community is buzzing as if they've just discovered a new continent... I admit, I feel a bit envious; others can talk about a couple of narrative points and immediately draw everyone's attention, while I, who only focus on data and users, seem particularly dull. To put it plainly, no matter how fast the chain gets, the old problems still remain: where to place assets, who holds the permissions, and how to exit if something really goes wrong. Especially now, with privacy coins/mixers and compliance boundaries causing a heated debate, it reminds me not to just focus on "performance imagination," but to think ahead about exit strategies: what if the bridge breaks, what if the front end crashes, what if liquidity dries up. Anyway, I prefer to go a bit slower, willing to miss out on some excitement rather than swimming blindly in the deep sea.