The Hidden Risks of Crypto Bridges



Today we’re joined by Luca Donnoh, Head of Research at L2BEAT, to dive deep into interoperability, bridging risk, and the hidden trust assumptions behind cross-chain assets.

In this episode we’re discussing:

- Luca’s background and path into crypto

- The L2 roadmap debate and Ethereum’s direction

- The new L2BEAT interoperability dataset

- Research goals behind the interop dashboard

- Lock & mint vs burn & mint bridges

- Intent-based bridging and counterparty risk

- Liquidity providers and bridge execution risk

- Canonical vs non-canonical tokens

- Wrapped asset systemic risk

- Multi-chain token configurations (LayerZero-style)

- Bridge exploits and historical failures

- The future of rollups, shared stacks & competition

And much more—enjoy!

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:05) Luca’s crypto background

(04:36) Latest L2BEAT project

(13:20) Rollup value proposition

(16:08) L2 roadmap hot takes

(20:22) Interop dataset overview

(23:19) Research goals explained

(29:45) Non-mint bridging model

(35:24) Lock & mint mechanics

(38:47) Non-issuer token bridging

(44:31) Bridge aggregator UX

(52:12) Risky token examples

(57:03) Multi-chain failure risks

(1:01:12) Closing thoughts

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Content links:
https://l2beat.com/interop/summary
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