These days I've been watching IBC / cross-chain message passing, and the more I look at it, the more I feel that a single "cross over" is actually just nodding to a series of things: the source chain itself shouldn't rollback, the light client/validators shouldn't cause trouble, relayers shouldn't go offline and feed false messages, the destination chain's contract upgrades shouldn't secretly change logic, and finally, liquidity pools shouldn't be drained all at once... To put it simply, it's not about trusting the "bridge," but trusting the entire chain of processes.

Recently, new L1/L2 projects are offering incentives to attract TVL, and veteran users complain about "mining, dumping, and selling." I can understand that too—more people moving assets across chains makes the message system and bridges more vulnerable to being exploited.

There's so much information that I feel a bit anxious. My current filtering method is pretty crude: I only pay attention to warning signals—abnormal large transfers, permission changes, contract upgrades, sudden TVL drops; if there's no such activity, I assume nothing's happening... That's how the on-duty cat handles it for now.