Parallelism and sharding have been heating up again recently, with people everywhere talking about how many times throughput can multiply. As I listened, my mind started to wander—then I thought it was pretty ridiculous. After all, this time last year, people were cursing some chain for hyping up TPS only to have its nodes collapse.

Anyway, the hype is the hype, but my first instinct is still to check the token unlock schedule. No matter how well sharding is done, if the team wallet starts linear release next month, what does that have to do with you? Lately, hardware wallets have been sold out everywhere, and there are more phishing links in the group chats. Security awareness—you usually think it's nagging, but when something actually happens, you realize how desperate it is not to have enough backup seed phrases.

At the end of the day, the technical narrative is for others to hear; the exit path is what you hold in your own hands. That's it for now.