I just saw a friend do it again for the sake of convenience—setting a contract authorization to “Unlimited” with a direct click. It sounds to me like going to sleep without turning off the stove… Sure, it’s convenient in the moment, but if anything really goes wrong, liquidation and chain reactions arrive faster than dough getting overproofed. Plainly put, authorization isn’t really “borrow it for a bit”; it’s more like handing someone the keys—especially for protocols with lots of interactions. Later upgrades, front-end hijacking, when the routing changes… and the blame may still end up being on you.

Right now, the narratives about AI Agents and automated trading are pretty hot, but what I care about is how many times they really have you click “approve,” and who’s chasing returns while who’s cutting down security risk is obvious at a glance. In any case, that’s my approach: use it, then back out—having the allowance be enough is all that matters. Before bed, I’ll just conveniently click to revoke a couple of times, and that makes me feel at ease.