At that moment, you held your breath. After clicking the confirmation button on the cross-chain bridges, the funds hung in the void—uncertain when and in what state they would land on the target chain. This sense of anxiety is real; almost every DeFi participant has experienced it. But the root of this fear is not just a problem with interface design.

Ultimately, this is the inevitable cost of fragmentation. In the Rollup ecosystem, each chain is like an isolated island. Data operates independently, and states are not synchronized. The bridges connecting these islands often become the weakest link—cross-chain attacks, liquidity depletion, and time delay are all testing the psychological defenses of users.

But recently, some projects have begun to think about this issue from another perspective.