Bridge Failure Modes and Exploits

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Cross-chain bridges have, by a wide margin, been the single largest category of losses in DeFi's history of exploits — not because bridge developers are careless, but because bridges concentrate enormous amounts of locked value behind code and trust assumptions that are structurally harder to audit and reason about than a typical single-chain smart contract. A single-chain contract's security depends……

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