These days, I've been fixing the issues with IBC / cross-chain message passing again. The more I look at it, the more I think that the key question is: "Who do you really trust in a cross-chain transfer?" It's not just about trusting the bridge page you click on, but also trusting the light client / validator set on the other side, whether the relayer forwarding the message is messing around, and what exactly your wallet signature is signing. To put it simply, cross-chain is like a game of passing messages; the blockchain itself might be very rigorous, but if any one of those middle links loosens, it’s a big problem.

And now hardware wallets are out of stock, phishing links are everywhere... I really don’t want to rely on being quick to survive in this market. Anyway, for myself: I always manually type or bookmark links, look at the message carefully before signing, and try small amounts first when transferring large sums. Others might think I’m slow, and that’s fine—I don’t need to be understood. I just want to survive through this market cycle.