These days I've been looking at cross-chain bridge structures again, and the more I look, the more I feel that "waiting for confirmation" isn't procrastination, it's a compromise with the weakest link. Multi-signature looks stable, but the real key is whether the signers/machines are truly decentralized and whether the threshold is high; the same goes for oracles—if you feed in the wrong data once, you can only pray for a rollback (usually there's no rollback). So now I prefer to be a bit slower with cross-chain transfers, wait for more confirmation rounds, or even cross fewer assets... the transaction fees are just insurance.

By the way, I want to complain about the incentive/points system on the testnet. Everyone's guessing whether the mainnet will issue tokens, but when it comes to bridges, if they really go crazy, no matter how many points there are, it won't be enough to cover the losses. Anyway, I only do small tests, mainly to see how the mechanism handles the fallback, and not to be fooled by the words "fast" and "smooth."