Recently I’ve been seeing a lot of projects with parallelization and sharding narratives getting hyped—it feels pretty lively. But honestly, every time I see one of these new storylines, my first reaction isn’t excitement; it’s to ask: once the money goes in, how does it come out? Is the security actually reliable?

A lot of testnet incentives and points expectations are making people itch to get in. Everyone is speculating whether the mainnet will issue tokens, and I’m curious too. But after all these years, I’ve noticed that many projects get hot for a while—TVL grows fast—but when you look into it, there are only a handful of active addresses, and net inflows are even harder to find. In plain terms, the liquidity looks big, but it’s kind of empty.

In any case, personally I think no matter what new concept comes up, asset security always comes first. If the exit path isn’t clear, I’m not really brave enough to bite into even the biggest “pie.” I’ll observe for a while first—don’t rush to follow the trend.