These days I've been looking at IBC and the messaging protocols again, and the more I look, the more I feel that "cross-chain" essentially means breaking trust into a bunch of small pieces: you have to trust that both chains won't malfunction, trust that light clients/validation rules are correctly written, trust that relayers won't go offline or act out of line, trust that timeout/replay protection and other details are handled properly, and finally, trust that the application layer won't leave backdoors. Each cross-chain operation seems simple at a glance, but in reality, you're signing off on a series of component approvals. Recently, with regulations tightening and loosening unpredictably, along with rumors of tax increases, deposit and withdrawal expectations are fluctuating. When market sentiment is volatile, I actually want to minimize cross-chain activities... This is the third time I remind myself: if you can avoid moving assets, don’t move them; if you really have to, treat it as a risk event and handle it carefully, don’t deceive yourself.