I muted the group. Not because I’m annoyed—more because all those debates in there are just noisy and basically have nothing to do with the real user experience. For example, modular blockchains are hyped up to the sky: “highly customizable,” “layered scaling,” and so on. But for an ordinary user like me, isn’t it just that you have more chains to jump back and forth across? In practice, you still have to wait for confirmations and pay gas. The difference is that you have to keep straight which layer does what, switch wallets back and forth, and if you slip even a little, you can’t get back. In plain terms, no matter how flashy the underlying architecture is, the end user side will still lag where it should, and the costs will still be high where they are. It just adds a bunch of new buzzwords to make you feel like you’re being professional.

Yesterday, in the chain game group, someone again shouted “coin prices spiral up and fly soaring.” I opened it and saw that the NFT inflation the studio was pumping was out of control—its economic model simply couldn’t hold up. Anyway, I’m not touching it. I’ll stay quiet for now and see whether modular can truly make the experience smoother before talking further.