Just now, before making the transfer, I stared at the address three times, and it suddenly felt a little funny: I was thinking, “Don’t let people track me,” while at the same time worrying, “Don’t turn myself into something suspicious.” As for on-chain privacy—plainly speaking, ordinary people shouldn’t expect to be “completely invisible.” More often, it’s about lowering the cost of linkage and leaving fewer meaningless traces. And once you hit the real line of compliance, the platform, the nodes, and even the entry points you use can pull you right back into the real world at any time.

My expectations are pretty straightforward. If I can avoid it, I won’t tie my salary address, my commonly used wallet, and my DeFi interactions all together. Keep the records that need to be kept—don’t fantasize that tools can help you fight every audit. Lately, the “stacked-yield” setup in the whole re-pledging and shared security scheme—being criticized as a Russian-doll-style, nested “set of returns”—has also made me feel a bit of resonance: the more layers you have, the more opaque corners there are, and when something really goes wrong, privacy might disappear first, and responsibility might not be something you can easily run away from. In any case, I’d rather make a little less and stay with clear discipline.