https://blockchaining.org/tags/security/ Recent content in Security on Blockchaining.org Hugo en-us Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blockchaining.org/2026/01/22/cross-chain-interoperability-has-a-trust-problem-it-cannot-engineer-away/ Thu, 22 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://blockchaining.org/2026/01/22/cross-chain-interoperability-has-a-trust-problem-it-cannot-engineer-away/ <p>More than two billion dollars has been stolen from cross-chain bridges since 2021. Ronin, Wormhole, Nomad, Harmony Horizon — the list of exploited bridge protocols reads like a chronicle of the same mistake repeated with varying degrees of sophistication. The mistake is not a bug. It is the fundamental architecture of the problem: moving assets between blockchains requires trusting something, and in distributed systems, trust is the attack surface.</p> <p>The industry has not resolved this. It has repackaged it.</p>