These past two days, I’ve been talking about parallel execution and sharding again. It’s been pretty lively, but what I’m still watching is the same old three things: where to put the funds, how to **revoke/exit**, and who ends up taking the blame if something goes wrong… To put it plainly, no matter how loudly throughput is touted, if your exit path isn’t clear, it’s hard to sleep soundly. I even wrote a small script to monitor event logs and found that when certain bridges/routes get congested, you start seeing all kinds of “delayed arrivals.” On-chain, everything looks normal, but in my head it just doesn’t feel quite right.

The other side—miners/validators—has also been getting criticized by retail users over their income, MEV, and fairness in transaction ordering. I get it too: you place an order like lining up to buy bubble tea, and then someone cuts the line and still charges you a service fee… Anyway, after lowering my expectations, I actually feel more at ease. Instead of gambling that the “next-generation narrative” will cash out immediately, I first straighten out the small details—authorization, whitelists, and revoking permissions. If it can run, that’s enough.