I muted the group, and it felt like the annoying buzzing right next to my ears suddenly disappeared. Honestly, before that, I spent every day staring at those governance proposals, and time after time I saw the turnout was pathetic. So many proposals clearly look like they’re run by big holders—delegate voting, “community self-governance,” and in the end it’s still the same few voices setting the tone. This governance token stuff, to put it bluntly, is it just a little illusion of “participation” for us? If you want to truly steer the protocol, it’s always the top holders and the project team themselves.

After those rounds of incidents—cross-chain bridges getting stolen, oracle errors—everyone finally just kept waiting for “confirmation” and building consensus, and I never saw any governance token instantly stop all that mess. Forget it. I guess I can’t dig up anything interesting by scrolling back and forth in the group anyway. Now it’s quieter—I'd rather go over the lending and borrowing interest rate curve properly, mark the liquidation levels, and label the watermarks. Listening to the group bickering is definitely less useful. Sometimes, not stirring things up is the real way to win.