Lately I've been looking at several cross-chain bridge contracts, and the more I look, the more I feel that "waiting for confirmation" isn't conservative—it's a way to buy time for yourself. The biggest risk for bridges isn't high fees; it's that once the multi-signature and oracle components go wrong: even if the multi-signature appears to have many signers, the actual permissions might be centralized, and signers can be changed at any time; oracles are even more outrageous—if the price feed/message is delayed or hijacked, the bridge will just proceed as if the event has occurred, meaning they treat an unreliable message as true.

Now, new L1/L2 chains are offering incentives to attract TVL, and I understand everyone rushing in to mine and sell, but the more active the bridge is during these times, the more likely small accidents will happen. My habit is: don’t rush to use the bridge immediately after crossing; wait for several confirmations, and check whether the bridge admin permissions can be directly upgraded or paused. Only then do I feel more at ease to proceed. For now, I’ll go check the multi-signature address change records on the chain for that bridge from yesterday.