Lately I've been looking at the IBC message passing system again, and the more I read, the more I feel that cross-chain is essentially about "who do I trust." A transfer from A to B not only requires trusting the two blockchains themselves but also trusting the light client/validator set, whether the relayer honestly relayed the message, that channel parameters haven't been tampered with, and some bridges even have an extra layer of multi-signature or oracles... As the number of touchpoints increases, people tend to overlook certain parts.

Last night I also checked on-chain, and a cross-chain packet was stuck for two or three epochs before being relayed, with the sequence in the logs constantly stuck at 18473. It made me a bit uneasy: it's not about losing money, but that feeling of "I've been waiting for someone else's action." Nowadays, everyone talks about staking unlocks and unlock calendar selling pressure anxiety, but in essence, it's the same as cross-chain—it's about calculating "which link will loosen first." I try to use a combination of strategies to break down single points of dependency, even if it means being slower, for now that's how I do it.