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In the past two days, there’s been more arguing in the group about whether extreme funding rates are a reversal or whether they’ll just keep squeezing the bubble. I’m not going to guess either way for now—I’ll first slow down the cross-chain bridge operations I have on hand. When it comes to bridges, the plain truth is: what you’re most afraid of isn’t the fees—it’s the situation where you think “funds have arrived,” but they’re actually still out there in midair.
Is multisig reassuring just because there are a lot of signers? Not necessarily. The key is who is signing, what the threshold is, and whether there’s a backdoor like a one-click upgrade. Oracles are the same: once the price/status is fed incorrectly, the bridge will “reasonably” be wrong along with it. And that “waiting for confirmation”—I used to think it was slow, but now I treat it as practice: practicing not being impulsive, not trying to grab the last second. It’s better to do fewer transactions than to bet on luck on the bridge. Set stop-losses properly—once something goes wrong with the bridge, there won’t even be a chance to stop-loss… For now, that’s it.