Anyway, that’s just how I think—if it’s a small amount, don’t overthink multi-sig or social recovery. If your wallet only has a few thousand USDT, multi-sig costs more and is slower; social recovery may take forever and still might not end up being useful. Better to honestly put it in an exchange cold wallet or self-custody a software cold wallet. But if your assets are in the tens of millions… then you need to weigh it seriously. Multi-sig is a hassle, but at least it won’t be the end of the show if one person goes wrong, and in DeFi multi-sig can also reduce smart contract risk.

Lately, I’ve been looking at all that restaking and shared security stuff, and it feels a bit like a matryoshka doll. The mechanism design is beautiful, but once you stack it layer by layer, every single point could become a new entry. Especially if you rely on TVL to create a sense of security—when liquidity is pulled out even a little, the whole logic falls apart. In any case, I trust the linkage between active addresses and net inflows more—sure, locked amounts can be used to hype things up, but the money actually moving on-chain won’t lie.

That said, for most people, social recovery is actually pretty useful—it fits that “in-between” kind of amount. Low barrier, and it helps prevent loss, but you need to choose the right smart contract wallet solution. That’s it for now—let’s talk specifics based on what scale you’re playing at.