Lately, the more I look at cross-chain bridges, the more uneasy I feel. To be honest, many times you're not actually "crossing chains," you're just handing your money over to a multi-signature + oracle + operational process for custody. When there are few signers, it feels like a small workshop; when there are many, you're afraid of collaboration issues. Oracles aren't gods either; feeding incorrect data can still cause failures. So now I'm increasingly concerned about the "waiting for confirmation" part—don't think it's slow; it's actually giving yourself a breather: waiting for on-chain settlement, waiting for the source to match, waiting for anomalies to be detected.

Modularization and the development of the DA layer are quite exciting for developers, but from the user side, it just looks... confused: more and more layers, more and more bridges, and in the end, risks stack up like building blocks.

What I fear missing the most isn't actually opportunities, but the illusion of still being on the chain after handing over your principal. Anyway, I prefer to be slow—like raising succulents, they can survive with less water.