Recently, all kinds of parallel and sharding-related news has been getting lively again. Honestly, I’m pretty afraid of this kind of narrative—every time someone hypes “performance improvements” and “tens of thousands of TPS,” everyone rushes in to grab the early mining allocation, as if how fast the chain can run on-chain directly equals how much money you can make. But the truth is: once your funds are placed in a brand-new chain that has just been sharded, or a newly upgraded sidechain, and if the oracle’s price feed source hasn’t kept up, or the update frequency slows down, then during liquidation you may be given an incorrect price—that’s what really means losing everything. I’ve seen too many cases where liquidations happened because of oracle price feed delays; it wasn’t a contract bug—the data source itself was the problem.

In the past couple of days, a certain mainstream public chain has been doing another upgrade. I heard it’s planning a forced hard fork, and in the group everyone has been speculating whether ecosystem projects will take advantage of the chaos to migrate to other chains. I actually think that rather than focusing on which projects might run away, you should first check the oracle in the protocol you’re using—who maintains it and how often it updates. Anyway, I recently went through the oracle price feed sources for a few positions again. Being conservative can never be wrong—having an exit plan matters more than chasing upside.