Recently, I’ve been seeing everyone argue again about which L2 has higher TPS, lower fees, and more aggressive subsidies… I admit I’m a little envious of that lively atmosphere, like there’s a new story to chase every day. But for someone like me who’d rather not move unless I have to, the moment I think about cross-chain, I calm down first: going from A to B—let’s be honest—isn’t as simple as “just sending it over.” It’s putting faith in a whole chain of things: whether the source chain itself won’t roll back, how the message gets proven (light clients/multisig/oracles), whether the relayer/Relayer might fail, how the destination chain verifies it, whether there are any pitfalls in the contract implementation, and who can actually access that big vault of funds held by the bridge. IBC, comparatively, makes me feel a bit more at ease, because at least its verification logic is more “on-chain,” but it’s not mindless, guaranteed security—issues like client expiration, misconfigured parameters, or validator penalties can still keep people up at night. Anyway, I keep my cross-chain transfer amounts pretty small for now; if it can be solved within the same chain, I do that—if it takes longer, then so be it.