Recently, someone has been watching large on-chain transfers and hot/cold wallets on exchanges and shouting "Smart money is coming" whenever they move, but I’ve become a bit cautious... Many times it’s just repositioning or consolidating, don’t let your emotions run high. As for cross-chain bridges, it’s even more so; on the surface, it’s just clicking "transfer," but behind the scenes, multi-signature, oracles, and that phrase "waiting for confirmation" are actually exchanges with risk: whether the multi-signature signers are sufficiently decentralized, whether the oracle price feed can be manipulated, or if rushing for confirmation without enough checks will only push you into uncertainty. To put it plainly, when a bridge has issues, it usually doesn’t give a heads-up in advance; the only thing you can do is be slower, even slower. If I had to keep just one habit, it would be: always wait for multiple confirmations before proceeding with cross-chain transfers.

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