Cross-chain bridges have exploded again! TAC was hacked for $2.8 million, and the crypto safety myth is completely shattered?

The crypto world has been hacked again and again.
This time, it’s the TAC cross-chain bridge, with losses reaching $2.8 million. The most heartbreaking part is that the official team might even sell tokens to compensate users.
Many veteran players, upon seeing the news, are already numb: “If you’re not robbed in a day, it doesn’t count as Web3.”
Why do cross-chain bridges keep having issues?
Because they are essentially the “high-speed toll booths” of the crypto world. Large amounts of assets are locked in one place, and once there’s a code vulnerability, hackers see it as an unguarded vault.
What’s even more outrageous is that many project teams would rather spend millions on marketing than take security audits seriously. As a result, airdrops are lively, but the moment they go live, they’re compromised.
And what the market truly worries about isn’t just the $2.8 million loss.
It’s trust.
Every security incident makes new users more hesitant. Many outsiders who were planning to enter the market see the news: “You can lose your money just by switching chains?” and immediately withdraw.
There’s also a harsh reality:
Hackers have started to “industrialize.”
Nowadays, some attack teams are even more professional than the project teams, specializing in contract vulnerabilities, cross-chain verification mechanisms, and multi-signature management. Before some projects go live, hackers may have already been watching for months.
So in the future, what’s truly valuable isn’t necessarily the projects that tell the best stories, but the ones that are the safest.
In a bull market, everyone only cares about price increases; in a bear market, safety becomes the priority.
And every large-scale security incident in crypto essentially reminds the market:
“Decentralization” is sexy, but code vulnerabilities never care about sentiment.
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