Lately I've been going through a bunch of cross-chain tutorials, and the more I read, the more I want to put the umbrella away... To be honest, when it comes to crossing a chain, you don't just believe in the words "bridge": don't let the front end change addresses or fall for phishing pop-ups, don't let the light nodes/relays on the source chain go offline, don't let the verification sets/multisigs act up, don't write vulnerable contracts on the landing chain, and you also have to trust that the messages aren't replayed. While IBC sounds elegant, in the end, you're still trusting "who's helping you prove that the message is real." Last night, I looked at some stablecoin flows on a certain chain and saw a large transfer from 0x7c…b1. Suddenly, the gas price spiked, and my emotions became pretty obvious. Anyway, these days, meme and celebrity shoutouts are flying fast, so newcomers shouldn't always try to jump across and catch the last baton. Falling on the bridge hurts a lot more than missing the jump.