Recently studying IBC stuff, the more I look at it, the more I feel that cross-chain is essentially about "whether the other side can trust the message." Once passed, besides the signature layer you hold, you also have to trust whether the intermediary transmitting the message has tampered with it, whether the verification logic on the other side will have bugs, and who is maintaining this "channel." Now I look at bridges and first ask myself: in the worst case, which link failing would directly wipe out my assets? Can I bear it?

By the way, thinking about the economic collapse of blockchain games, it’s actually like another kind of "trust between different systems" breaking down: once inflation kicks in, studios enter the scene, coin prices spiral, and everyone stops trusting the reward messages, leaving only the speed of running away. Anyway, I’d rather go slower, understand what I’m doing, and then act.