I’ve been seeing people argue about whether NFT royalties should be mandatory to collect. It’s all that secondary-market stuff—arguing back and forth, but at its core it’s still about how profits and interests are allocated. As a laid-back player like me, anyway, I don’t go for high turnover. If I occasionally sell at the floor price, that little bit of royalty money is really optional.

What I’m running into more recently, though, is the whole “restaking” and “shared security” setup—the way people say the returns stack up layer upon layer, and the risk gets branded as “Russian-doll” risk. I find that pretty worrying too. Put plainly: no matter how many layers you stack, if the underlying assets aren’t stable, you’ll still end up the one bearing the loss in the end.

I used to always think about chasing higher returns, but later I realized that setting a smaller target helps. For example, instead of trying to do too much, if you just keep it steady—like consistently running a few thousand a day—you can stick with it for much longer. Earning money slowly is fine. The real win is sleeping soundly. A gradual warm-water boil is better than getting blown up by a sudden rug pull.