Just now my phone popped up a red dot notification saying "Privacy enhancements are enabled," and I was stunned for a moment… To be honest, my expectations for on-chain privacy are now quite low: I just want to expose as few points as possible, but don’t expect to always hide in the fog. The chain is transparent, and the entry points (exchanges/fiat/large deposits and withdrawals) are all quite compliant. If someone really starts paying attention, the little "tricks" ordinary people try won’t be enough.

What I care more about is boundaries: normal transfers, protecting asset associations, avoiding being monitored by bots—these are "self-protection"; but once you use privacy as a shield to wash and shuffle, you’ll eventually get caught, or even cause collateral damage. Just like recently with the inflation + studio + coin price spiral collapse in blockchain games, the unlucky ones are still retail investors… So now I’d rather go through some trouble, think through the fund flow clearly, split accounts, minimize permissions, leave traces where needed, and take it slow—this is how I’ll do it for now.