Parallelism and sharding are back in the spotlight, and everyone in the group is talking about TPS, speed, and efficiency.

Anyway, I’ll focus on two things first: where are the assets actually stored, and can they be withdrawn?
With more bridges, routers, and aggregators, permissions become easier to mess up; can the contract be paused, can the fee rate be changed, who is the administrator—if you don’t understand these clearly, when something goes wrong, you might not even find the cancel button.

Recently, the incentives on testnets and the expectations for points have been quite tense; everyone is guessing whether the mainnet will issue tokens.
My habit is: treat points as non-existent, and first practice the exit routes (crossing back to the mainnet, selling, withdrawing); if you get stuck at any step, don’t hold a large position.

What I’ve learned isn’t skills, but that amidst all the excitement, what really determines whether you can survive is whether you can “safely exit.”