Recently, parallel processing/sharding has been getting a lot of attention again. A bunch of people in the group are watching testnet incentives and points get racked up like crazy, and then they start guessing: “Will the mainnet really issue tokens?” I’m looking at it and feeling a bit sleepy. Put simply, no matter how big the narrative gets, it ultimately comes down to two things: where your assets are stored so they’re safer, and how you can actually get out your funds when something really goes wrong—when you really want to leave. Those small details—cross-chain, bridges, approvals, signatures—are the easiest to get swept under by all the “excitement.” By the time you want to withdraw, you find the route is too long and the liquidity is too thin, or that permissions were granted too broadly from the start. Anyway, that’s where I’m at right now: low frequency. If I can, I connect less; if I can, I approve less; and I think about the exit route first—otherwise, you wake up and your wallet is empty, and that won’t be funny.