These days I’m drawing cross-chain paths again… the more I draw, the more I feel that “crossing a chain” isn’t really a single action—it’s a whole string of social favors: don’t roll back the source chain first, don’t let relayers/middlemen get lazy, don’t let the light client/verification mechanism turn into bugs, don’t execute the target chain randomly—and in the end, you still have to trust whatever it is behind the bridge: signatures, multisig, and oracles…whether they’re truly reliable.

And just so happens that hardware wallets have been out of stock lately, phishing links are coming in hot, and everyone’s security awareness has improved—but I also know that when I’m quick, I’m the one most likely to click the wrong thing… I need to be reminded: before doing any cross-chain, run the “trust components” through your mind first, or else MEV won’t get the chance to mess with me—I’ll be taken out first by my own actions.