Cross-chain bridges, they’re not just “click and wait for the funds to arrive” simple. Multi-signature looks like insurance, but the key is how much the signing authority is dispersed, and whether anyone can lock down the entire gate; oracles are the same, if the price feed/status feed is stuck or manipulated, no matter how urgent, you can only wait. To put it plainly, “waiting for confirmation” isn’t a waste of time, it’s waiting for a bunch of people and systems to avoid simultaneous failures.

Recently, AI Agents and automated trading are being hyped up, I see many people letting scripts run on-chain themselves, and conveniently crossing bridges… then granting a bunch of permissions, signing without checking, and asking me later if they can recover after something goes wrong. The most I can do is review: at which point did you hand the gate over to someone else. Anyway, my own habit is to use fewer bridges, keep the limits small, better slow than risk rushing through.