Parallel sharding has been quite the talk lately, with all kinds of roadmaps being hyped to the sky. But honestly, when I look at those new protocols, my first reaction is: **how safe are the assets? Is the exit path clear?** The lesson from that on-chain game crash was too deep—when the inflation model broke, studios and retail users got swept up together, the price spiral headed downward, and eventually even liquidity was drained. It’s lively, but the underlying logic hasn’t changed: when something goes wrong, can the money you put in be withdrawn in a respectable way?

What I don’t regret is that early on, in a few sharding projects, I forced myself to draw an “origami diagram” first—entry points, averaging-in discipline, and withdrawal signals—layer by layer, step by step, before actually taking action. Now I look back, and those few sheets of paper are more useful than any whitepaper.