To be honest, I’ve been hearing the term “modular blockchain” a lot lately, but for me, can end users really feel any real difference? Put simply, in the past, one chain handled everything—when something went wrong, everyone would stare at a single node and curse it. Now that they’ve gone for layering, liquidity, the execution layer, and data availability are split into different components, which sounds like it’s more robust.

But after what happened recently—cross-chain bridges being drained and that oracle pricing incident—people were still there refreshing “waiting for confirmation”… Tell me, waiting for confirmation of which layer? In my first reaction, it was: has risk also been modularized? Back then, one vulnerability could be the whole thing’s undoing; now, maybe nine out of ten components still have to rely on trust and consensus to be stitched together.

Honestly, when emotions run extreme, crowds are most easily swept along by the assumption that “decentralization = security.” In reality, the experience hasn’t changed—it’s just moved to a new place, with the risk hidden even deeper. Don’t follow the trend until the very last second…