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Recently, I've seen a bunch of Layer 2s competing over TPS, fees, and ecosystem subsidies, and it's been quite lively. But when I hear narratives like "parallel" and "sharding," my first reaction isn't excitement; it's to run through the exit strategies in my mind: If I want to withdraw my funds, which bridge do I take? Who is responsible if something goes wrong? Who holds multi-signature or upgrade permissions? Honestly, no matter how powerful the performance, it must be safe to withdraw.
What I fear most isn't slowness; it's chaos—at worst, waiting for confirmation, but chaos is when you don't even know under whose rules your assets are, and when something goes wrong, you can't find the boundary. Anyway, when I look at new chains or new rollups, I first check permissions and bridges, then subsidies, and only finally do I look at how "smooth the user experience" is. I work in UX, but a sense of security is also part of UX. That's all for now.