Today I was transferring assets between chains again, stuck there spinning in circles, and I impulsively clicked refresh/retry twice, resulting in a queue waiting for confirmation… To put it plainly, with cross-chain transfers, you’re not only trusting the “bridge,” but also whether the message has been honestly transmitted, whether the other side has executed as intended, and whether a bunch of validators/relayers are all following the same rules. IBC, which separates “message passing” and “fund transfer,” looks cleaner, but if you think trusting one point less is enough, actually it’s just replacing it with trusting the entire process, risking chain failures. Recently, the stacking of staking and shared security yield layers has been criticized as “nested,” which I can understand: if security is used to stack yields, once emotions flip, the feedback loop can be especially harsh. Anyway, I now prefer cross-chain transfers to be a bit slower, with shorter paths, and I feel more at ease.