These days, I’ve seen new L1/L2 incentives to boost TVL again, and old users are complaining about “mining, selling,” I understand... Anyway, where the rewards are plentiful, the bridges should be even more closely monitored. To put it simply, when doing a cross-chain transfer, you’re trusting not just the “bridge” itself: first, trust the source chain not to rollback or halt; then, trust how the other side verifies messages (whether it’s a light client that verifies itself, or multi-signature/relayers that decide); also, trust that the relayers/ordering won’t get stuck or be jumped in line; finally, trust that the contract on the destination side isn’t written to explode, especially during minting/unlocking.

My mom asked me yesterday: “When you transfer coins, why do you still need to ‘bridge,’ will it fall into the river?” I said... it really can, and if it falls, most likely you won’t get it back, so I prefer slow transfers with simpler verification methods, splitting the amount into smaller parts, at least avoiding a full-blown disaster if you hit a snag.