Just went through a wallet and saw a bunch of messy assets, and it suddenly made me think about what modular blockchains actually change. Honestly, for regular users like us, the most direct feeling is this—on-chain interactions have become more complicated. What used to be handled on one chain is now something you have to do across several modules, and each module has its own rules and gas fees. If you’re not careful, you end up losing money to fees. But on the other hand, this splitting makes the underlying layer more flexible. In the future, the application layer could feel smoother—right now though, it’s still in the “disassembled” stage, not the “assembled” stage.

Recently, the funding rates have been taken to extremes and have gotten downright ridiculous. People in the group are even speculating whether a reversal is coming. In any case, I can’t make sense of it as a small retail user, so I can only keep watching whether the fees are high, and slowly figure out which chain’s gas fees are cheaper. It feels like modularity is a bit like this: everyone is waiting for a “completed assembly” point, but nobody knows how long we’ll have to wait. That’s it for now—I’ll keep waiting for my airdrop.