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The popularity of decentralized finance (DeFi) has helped spur the growth of cross-chain bridges. Blockchain bridges let users move assets between different blockchains, increasing their liquidity and ability to leverage tokens for staking, yield farming, and lending.
However, cross-chain bridges force users to make many trade-offs. This includes centralization, poor liquidity, technical vulnerabilities, and even the risk of censorship.