Today I almost got itchy again and went to cross-chain to chase a testnet point, but as I was doing it, I suddenly remembered: stop first.

Cross-chain bridges, to put it simply, are like pouring tea from one cup to another, and the middle part is the easiest to spill.

Multi-signature looks stable, but it really depends on whether those few people / keys are reliable;
Oracles are even more mysterious—if the data is fed incorrectly, you might think you're waiting for "confirmation."
Now before I cross-chain, I stop and take a look: how many confirmations to wait for, who can press pause in case of anomalies, whether there’s a history of failures…
Otherwise, no matter how tempting the guess that the mainnet will or won’t issue tokens, you can only watch with eyes wide open while the money is stuck in the bridge.

Stop, observe, pause, don’t rush to drink the hot soup.