Bridges are by far among the most dangerous setups in crypto.
Historically, they have been one of the largest sources of catastrophic losses: many have been breached, failed, or simply shut down and ceased operating. They are particularly attractive targets because large amounts of native assets, like Dogecoin, often sit in one place backing balances on another network.
Companies (from exchanges to Defi companies) like them because they can bring liquidity and users from much more popular chains into their own (often unused) ecosystems.
Bridging means accepting a new set of risks and giving away a good part of your control over your assets. Depending on the design, you are giving a bridge contract, federation or operator some degree of control over the native assets backing your position, while the asset you use on the other side now depends on that network's validators, consensus and security assumptions as well as on the bridge continuing to maintain the peg correctly.
The technical complexity of bridges introduce risks most users cannot understand, and unfortunately these risks are much higher today than before, as security research moves at breakneck pace due to the use of AI, asymmetry of the access to more advanced models, and because writing secure software is much more difficult than discovering a single tiny but potential catastrophic security bug in a complex multi layered system.
As I have repeated for years, for most retail users bridges are simply too dangerous to treat casually.
Bridged assets should not be held long term unless you understand those additional trust assumptions and are prepared for the possibility of losing them.
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