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Last night, the group was again sharing screenshots of "a certain stablecoin losing its peg," and the more it was shared, the more it seemed like collective anxiety spreading... I casually checked the on-chain outflows and the queue at the bridge, and found that the real bottleneck for users is often not the price, but the "waiting for confirmation" process on the cross-chain bridge. Multi-signature signatures not fully signed, whether the oracle feed has delays—these are usually not a big deal, but when emotions run high, they all become risk amplifiers.
I previously suffered a loss once: I couldn't understand who was holding the multi-signature for a certain bridge, or which oracle provider was used, and I even saw someone urging "hurry up and cross, or it’ll be too late," and I almost clicked confirm in a panic. Later, I thought, forget it, I’d rather go slower—wait for block confirmations, wait for announcements, wait for audit details to come out. Honestly, confirmation isn’t a waste of time; it’s a way to cool down. If you don’t understand something, don’t act immediately—at least you won’t be forced to make mistakes out of impatience.