Just finished clearing the cross-chain gas records, and then I remembered what a friend told me a couple of days ago: when he bridged, he saw an “awaiting confirmation” screen and closed his browser right away. As a result, his assets got stuck in the middle and didn’t come back until two days later.

I thought, brother, you’re lucky—you didn’t run into things like an oracle price-feed delay or the extra delays caused by additional signatures. In my own practice, I’d rather wait a little longer for confirmation now than chase that few minutes of excitement.

Recently, the market has been flooded with a bunch of new L1/L2 projects rolling out incentive programs, boosting TVL. Even long-time users have been complaining about “mine-to-sell.” I took a look, and honestly, some of these projects’ cross-chain bridge contracts don’t even publicly disclose the multi-sig. To be real, I’m a bit panicked.

What I’m most afraid of missing isn’t actually an opportunity, but… (one sentence): What I’m most afraid of missing isn’t an opportunity, it’s “if this step doesn’t get confirmed, everything after that is pointless.”