Lately I've been reviewing IBC and various "messaging/bridging" things, and the more I look, the more I think cross-chain is basically just counting who you trust: the source chain needs to honestly produce blocks, the target chain needs to verify according to the rules, light clients/validator sets shouldn't all go rogue, relayers shouldn't go offline, and that layer of "bridge contract" shouldn't be written to explode... I'm just someone who once rushed into a dog coin and paid the price, so before I take action, I first go through these components in my mind; if I can't pass the check, I won't cross, even if it means being slower.

By the way, the fuss about NFT royalties also seems pretty similar: everyone wants "trustless, automatic execution," but when liquidity in the secondary market gets tight, they start arguing over whether it should be enforced. Anyway, my current simple rules are two: don't chase hype, avoid excessive leverage, and if it can be solved on-chain, don't bother with hard cross-chain tinkering.