Lately, there’s been more chatter about parallel processing and sharding—sounds pretty lively—but my first reaction is still: where to put the assets, and how to get them back out. To put it plainly: no matter how high the TPS is, if one swap ends up routed through something odd and you get bitten by slippage, the experience is just so-so… Before I act, I’ll wait a little longer instead: wait for confirmation, wait for the pullback to play out, and wait until I’ve figured out what this trade is really for.

It’s even more obvious on blockchain games: once inflation kicks in, when studios move in, the coin price spirals— and in the end, it’s basically “wanting to run, but unable to.” So I’d rather go slower. First, I’ll make sure I understand the exit path, the approvals, and the liquidity depth, and don’t let the narrative drag me along. Better to take it steady—either way, I don’t want to be the next case study.