Last night before bed, I saw someone complain again that "cross-chain transfers are like praying"… I was a bit panicked but still itchy to try. Honestly, with a cross-chain transfer, you're not just trusting the "bridge": the source chain must trust its consensus not to fail, the destination chain must trust that it will execute according to the rules; the message passing layer (IBC / relays / light clients and the like) must trust that the verification logic has no holes and relayers won't mess around; further down, there's the ordering layer. Recently, miners/validators rely on MEV to make profits, with front-running and sandwich attacks that retail investors complain about daily, and the order of cross-chain message execution becomes very mysterious. Anyway, I now test with small amounts first, take screenshots and keep records… The tax form anxiety can be put aside for now.