How to Bridge Crypto Safely: How People Get Rekd Between Chains

Bridging crypto safely is basically moving your money from one universe to another through a wormhole… that is sometimes operated by a dude in a hoodie with a GitHub account.

If you’ve ever thought “it’s just a transfer, what could go wrong?”, congrats: you’re exactly the target audience for this article.

Today we’re going to make you annoyingly competent at bridging: what a bridge actually does, the most common ways people get rekt between chains, and a step-by-step checklist that makes bridging feel less like Indiana Jones and more like “boring finance app.”

Bridging crypto = not a normal transfer

On one chain, a “transfer” is simple: send token, it arrives. When you bridge, you’re not sending a token to another chain in the same way.