Lately I've been looking into IBC / cross-chain stuff again, and the more I look, the more I feel that "who to trust in a cross-chain" basically boils down to a few things: whether the consensus of the source chain and target chain themselves is reliable, whether the message passing / relaying in the middle is following the rules, and whether the light client / verification logic has been exploited. Many issues with bridges aren't because you didn't see the risks, but because you assumed they "should be fine"... I now prefer to be a bit more trouble and first review the trust path in my mind before clicking confirm.

By the way, a quick rant about this wave of AI Agent automatic trading and on-chain interaction—people hype it up quite a bit, but when it comes to safety details, the answers are vague: who grants it authorization, can permissions be layered, who holds the signing keys, can issues be reversed... don’t let "automatic" turn into "automatic handing over your wallet." Trading psychology is also about practicing restraint—when you get itchy, first turn off the cross-chain button, take two minutes to cool down, and you might avoid many pitfalls.