Cross-chain asset swaps? Still a nightmare.

The real bottleneck isn't speed or fees—it's incompatibility. Native BTC sitting there, unable to directly interact with USDT on BNB Chain, LTC on its own network, wBTC wrapped on Ethereum, or TRX doing its thing on Tron.

Every bridge "solution" we've seen just piles on more problems. Wrapped tokens everywhere. Custodial risks you can't ignore. Liquidity split across ten different versions of the same asset.

Nobody's actually fixed the core issue—these chains literally can't speak to each other without middlemen, wrappers, and trust assumptions.

Meanwhile traders are stuck juggling multiple wallets, paying conversion fees twice, and praying their bridge doesn't get exploited next week.

The infrastructure gap is glaring.