Recently, new L1/L2 projects launch with incentives to boost TVL, and veteran users in the group are complaining again about "mining and selling." I can understand that... So now, when I evaluate a project's "credibility," I tend to focus on three simple things that even beginners can understand: whether GitHub has ongoing updates (not just a sudden big update followed by silence), whether the audit report details specific issues and the progress of fixes (not just a logo), and whether the upgrade permissions are multi-signed with signers dispersed (not just one or two people making decisions). To be clear, these don't guarantee safety, but at least they can filter out some pure noise. I see myself more as an observer admiring the patterns in the petals rather than a hunter chasing the wind. Anyway, I prefer to take it slow rather than be dazzled again by the illusion of "prosperity during the incentive period."