Every time I hear someone say "just do a cross-chain transfer," I get a little itchy to dive into a smart contract... Honestly, when you cross a chain, you trust too many things: the finality of the source chain and target chain (thank goodness they don't roll back), the messaging passing module in the middle, the relay/validator set responsible for forwarding, plus the permissions of the bridge contract (whether it can be upgraded, paused, or have its whitelist changed). Many debates about "IBC being very secure" or "a certain bridge being highly decentralized" ultimately boil down to: who can send fake messages, who can tamper with the validation logic, and who can change the lock when you're not paying attention. Recently, the staking + shared security approach has been criticized as a "yield farming trap," which I can understand—security is already complex enough, and layering on a trust chain makes it even harder to pinpoint where things go wrong when something happens. Anyway, when I look at cross-chain now, I first focus on permissions and transaction flow, and no matter how smooth the story sounds, I treat it as a risk warning.