Recently, there's been talk about sharding and parallel processing again, sounding quite lively, but my first reaction is: how exactly can you withdraw your funds? The more chains and channels there are, the longer the exit path, and if any link gets stuck, someone is bound to get the short end of the stick. Just a few days ago, another cross-chain bridge had issues, which is very realistic: no matter how fast the execution, it can't save assets that can't be retrieved.

And then there's the oracle price feed going haywire, with the entire network starting to play dead and pretend to wait for confirmation, basically everyone is afraid of taking the blame. Anyway, now when I see new projects, I first check: who holds the permissions, where's the pause button, can I withdraw on a single chain if something goes wrong; as for gas fees, forget about saving a little—life is more precious.