During the morning rush hour on the subway, I was checking the blockchain and kept seeing people blow up about how great “parallel processing” and “sharding” are—so fast, so awesome… It sounded lively, but my first reaction was still: where exactly am I supposed to put my assets, and can I actually get out? To put it plainly, no matter how fast it is, if the bridge/contract/permissions flip and fail, then “fast” just means quickly going back to zero.

Recently, there’s been another round of attention-rotation driven by Memes and celebrity coin-spinning. And that old player line—“don’t take the last baton”—isn’t some deep, mysterious wisdom. It’s because if you hesitate even a moment, gas shoots up, and if you try to run, you’re stuck in traffic. Anyway, every time I feel impulsive now, I check first: is the contract open source, are the permissions multi-sig, are there liquidity options for exit routes, and—worst case—can I just directly return to the mainnet… Don’t end up saving a few cents on gas only to pay a big price later.