Whoa! The first thing that hits you in DeFi is how subtle levers move huge flows. My gut said governance was just voting theater. Seriously? But then I watched vote‑locked CRV reshape which pools actually mattered, and that changed the way I think. Initially I thought governance was mostly symbolic. Actually, wait—let me rephrase that:

Whoa! I remember the first time I tried to move funds privately and everything felt like a leaky faucet. My instinct said privacy should be simple, but it rarely is. At first glance a wallet looks like a wallet, though actually the devil is in transaction graphs, key handling, and user defaults that betray you