Struggling to understand initializer guards and storage conflicts in upgradeable smart contracts — how do you handle them?
Upgradeable contracts feel like a superpower… until you break storage or forget an initializer guard 😅. Every tutorial says “use UUPS or Transparent Proxy,” but they rarely explain why these patterns exist or what can go wrong in a real protocol.
My biggest fear: silently overwriting someone else’s data because I messed up the storage slot order. I want to understand this topic deeply before facing an interview or contributing to a live project.
How did you learn proxies properly without spiraling into panic? Any mental models that made this less overwhelming?
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