Recently, there's been talk again about sharding and parallel processing, which sounds quite lively, but my first reaction is still: can asset security be guaranteed, and if something really goes wrong, are the exit routes smooth? Frankly, no matter how impressive TPS looks, if your wallet gets phished, the contract malfunctions, or the bridge gets stuck, you're just left staring helplessly... Now I tend to ask about projects first: who holds the permissions? Are the confiscation/punishment mechanisms clearly written? How long does it take to unbond or redeem? Is there an "escape hatch" in case of congestion?

By the way, I looked into the NFT royalty debates—creators want income, secondary markets need liquidity, I get that, but rules changing all the time is the real torture. Today they collect, tomorrow they don’t—who dares to play long-term?
What I fear most isn’t actually missing out on opportunities, but the button that allows you to fully retreat when things go wrong.