Cross-chain bridges are the airport security of Web3 necessary, miserable, and overdue for disruption

Nobody likes them. Everyone uses them. And we’ve just collectively decided that slow, stressful, and occasionally catastrophic is fine.

I’ve been using Near Intents recently and the difference is hard to overstate. Instead of manually routing a transaction across chains, you declare an outcome “I want X for Y” and a network of solvers compete to fill it at the best rate. A verifier contract enforces delivery. You get your result.

The crazy part is it just crossed $14 billion in all time volume. So it’s not theoretical anymore.

I’m not saying bridges are dead tomorrow. But intent based execution feels like the direction everything eventually moves. The chains that don’t adapt are going to feel ancient fast.

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