After years of on-chain experience, you can definitely feel a clear change: manual operations are gradually being replaced by automation.

Remember before? You had to manually click to swap tokens, manually adjust your positions, manually participate in liquidity mining, and place trades yourself. Now, it's different. More and more wallets and protocols are integrating automatic modules—authorize once, and they keep operating for you. Features like automatic rebalancing, automatic yield optimization, automatic stop-loss and take-profit, automatic position shifting—these functions frequently appear in wallets and DeFi applications.

At first glance, it certainly improves efficiency, but upon deeper reflection, the problem emerges: the execution rights are no longer exclusively yours but are shared with proxy logic. Your wallet not only executes commands you confirm with a click but also automatically performs actions based on the proxy's judgment.

Here's a core question: who truly owns the control over execution?

Permission expansion is a gradual infiltration, not an instant event. The first time you authorize automatic rebalancing, you think it's no big deal; when you authorize the second feature, your permissions expand a bit more; when the third module is integrated, the proxy capability gains an additional layer. As automation features accumulate, you'll suddenly realize that the execution rights held by the proxy have formed a complete system. In the end, you'll realize that your wallet is no longer entirely yours.