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These days, I see everyone anxiously staring at the unlock calendar, but I'm actually more worried about another kind of "pressure"—who exactly is trust being handed over to in cross-chain transactions. IBC looks very smooth, but in reality, you're trusting more than just the chain itself: whether the light client can update in time, whether the validator set might suddenly change; the relayer, to put it simply, is just a transporter—technically, it shouldn't be able to modify messages, but if it goes offline, you're stuck; and further along the bridge, many components are multi-signature, oracles, or guardians—changing parameters or lowering thresholds can distort the risk boundaries... Before I do a cross-chain transfer now, I first check these "component lists," otherwise I get nervous once the assets are transferred. Let's talk about this again next time.