I experienced the cross-chain bridge of $WAL , reflecting on its strategic value

I used the official cross-chain bridge of WAL to transfer some ETH from Arbitrum.

The process was smooth, and the fees were reasonable.

However, after completing it, I pondered a question: Is the cross-chain bridge a defensive infrastructure or an offensive growth tool for WAL?

As a defensive facility, it must exist; otherwise, your chain becomes an island, and assets cannot enter.

So far, it has successfully fulfilled this basic task.

But as an offensive tool, it needs to attract assets and users from external chains to actively and frequently use it to enter the WAL ecosystem.

Currently, the attractiveness seems insufficient.

Because the motivation for users to cross chains is the high returns or unique applications on the target chain, and the competitiveness of the WAL ecosystem in this regard has yet to be highlighted.

Therefore, the cross-chain bridge currently resembles a "one-way slow lane"; external assets can enter, but most of the incoming assets are either hesitant or merely staked, without forming an active closed-loop transaction.

To let the bridge play its strategic value, the key lies at the other end of the bridge, within the $WAL ecosystem—whether it can build a "prosperous metropolis" that people must come to, rather than just providing a few identical "farmhouses" (DeFi mining).

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