Lunchtime checked a few cross-chain bridge announcements, and I saw someone complain "why are we still waiting for confirmation," basically this thing is just using time to exchange for certainty. Multi-signature looks like "someone is watching," but who is signing, are they the same group, how are the emergency permissions written, if something really goes wrong it only takes a few minutes; oracles are even more so, if the price feed/status feed messes up, the bridge still allows the transfer.

Recently, there's been talk about miner/validator income, MEV, and fair ordering... My feeling is: the more people can cut in line to make money, the less you should expect the system to be "automatically fair." I'm just someone glancing at on-chain data during lunch, for cross-chain I now prefer to be slower, wait for several confirmations, and if the amount is large, just split it into batches, less excitement, sleep more peacefully.