These days, everyone is arguing intensely about the funding rate, saying "It's about to reverse / Can it keep squeezing?"

I'm actually thinking about cross-chain stuff... Anyway, every time I FOMO in, my biggest fear isn't the price turning back, but some mishap on the bridge side.

To put it simply, when doing a cross-chain transfer, you really trust quite a few things:
The source chain itself shouldn't be down, and the target chain must be functioning normally;
The set responsible for "passing the message" (whether it's IBC or other message passing protocols) must really verify that the message is clear;
You also have to trust that the target chain's light client/validation logic isn't messed up;
And further down, the relay/forwarding people shouldn't cause trouble, and the channel configuration shouldn't be arbitrarily changed.
It sounds fancy, but basically it's "who's guaranteeing that this statement is true."

If I had looked a little more carefully at which kind of bridge I was using, whether there were multisig/oracles/relay single points, I might not have been stuck on the chain for so long thinking it was just my network issues...
Note this down first, the cost of impulsiveness is +1 again.