Lately, I've been looking into IBC / message passing / bridges, and the more I look, the more I feel that "cross-chain" essentially means: who do I trust? It's not just about trusting the target chain and the source chain; if any part of the verification, relaying, client/validator set (or even the few people involved in multi-signatures) loosens, it could turn into "the message arrived but the meaning changed." What makes IBC somewhat more reassuring is that it at least clearly defines the trust boundary: you're trusting the consensus of the other chain, not the conscience of a bridge operator... Of course, this assumes the light client implementation doesn't fail.

By the way, this macro situation is also quite surreal. When the expectation of rate cuts emerged, sometimes the US dollar index and risk assets moved together, feeling like market sentiment is faster than models. Anyway, my current habit to avoid impulsive trades is: first, write down in a memo who I trust and what the worst-case scenario might be; if I can't write it out, I don't click confirm yet. After a glass of water, I look at it again, and many of the impulsive trades just cool off on their own.