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Lately, I've been a bit obsessed with DAO voting... The proposals all seem to be about "the ecosystem," but I'm more concerned about how incentives are hidden and how power is distributed: who can propose, who can change parameters, who has the final say on budgets, and whether there's a little button to easily give oneself a boost before and after voting. Honestly, it's not about voting "correctly," but about voting "to make it harder for others to shake me later."
The NFT royalty debates are also pretty much the same story: creators want income, secondary markets need liquidity, and in the end, it often turns into platforms or big players having more influence, while small traders follow the sentiment... When I get excited, I just want to hit confirm, but after reading the terms twice, I calm down.
I now trust data a bit more, at least on-chain records won't change just because I'm in a bad mood today; intuition, on the other hand, is easy to mistake "I want to win" for "I understand this." Anyway, my rule remains the same: don't add to your position without a purpose, don't seek to be a genius, just stay alive.