Recently, whenever I think about the pitfalls of cross-chain bridges, that old saying comes to mind again: money isn’t actually lost “over the bridge”—it’s that you’ve put your trust into a few points. Multi-signature looks solid, but to put it plainly, it’s really about whether a group of people can “go wrong” together. Oracles are even more mysterious—feed the wrong data once, and on-chain it will carry out the mistake very seriously.

So I’m pretty fixated on “waiting for confirmation” now. Not being nitpicky—just leaving myself a chance to change my mind: if anything turns abnormal, I can stop; if nothing’s abnormal, then I move on to the next step. Especially during airdrop season, everyone is hustling and competing over tasks like it’s just another day at work. The stricter the anti-bot (anti-witch hunt) measures get, the more they push people into taking shortcuts—this is when it’s easiest to overlook a bridge’s confirmation/latency prompts… In any case, I’d rather move a bit slower than build my sense of security on the assumption that “nothing will go wrong.”