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Lately I've been studying IBC and various messaging/bridging protocols. Honestly, every time you "cross a chain," it's not as simple as just clicking a button. 😂 You might think you're trusting Chain A and Chain B, but in reality, you also have to trust: whether the light client/verification logic has vulnerabilities, whether the relayer will slack off, whether the target chain's contract execution is written like a landmine, and whether someone is secretly swapping out the multisig/validator set of the bridge... The more I look into it, the more I find that the word "simple" is the most frightening. I take simplicity as a trap and warn: before doing cross-chain transfers, ask yourself who you're really trusting. Otherwise, you'll end up with a bunch of interaction records in your wallet as souvenirs. By the way, I want to complain about the modular + data availability layer narrative—developers are ecstatic, but users (including myself) can only nod and pretend to understand. Anyway, when something goes wrong, the scapegoat will always be "my clumsy fingers."