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Recently, there's been talk again about sharding and parallel processing, feeling like they're building wider and wider highways, and the narrative is getting more lively... But every time I see this kind of "major technical upgrade," I instinctively focus on two things: where to store assets more securely, and where the exit is when you really want to move. In plain terms, liquidity hasn't kept up, and no matter how good the story looks, it can easily turn into window dressing art—standing and admiring looks beautiful, but when you try to move, you find the door is locked. Turning to social mining and fan tokens, that set of "attention equals mining," I don't oppose it; after all, on-chain art has always relied on attention. But attention is too fleeting—when it's hot, you can mine anything; when it cools down, you're left with a bunch of hard-to-withdraw fragments... Right now, I prefer to test the waters with small amounts, prioritizing options that can be withdrawn at any time and have clear paths, rather than taking "participation" as a sense of security.