{"id":543789,"date":"2026-01-19T12:53:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/bridges-are-cryptos-next-ftx-waiting-to-happen\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:53:56","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T12:53:56","slug":"bridges-are-cryptos-next-ftx-waiting-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/bridges-are-cryptos-next-ftx-waiting-to-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridges are crypto\u2019s next FTX waiting to happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjYtMDEvMDE5YmMxMjItOGY4ZS03ZWNmLWE0MGYtNGRhYzFiZTg2NTUyLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"Bridges are crypto\u2019s next FTX waiting to happen\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cross-chain bridges concentrate risk and centralize trust, creating vulnerabilities that could trigger a systemic crypto crisis under stressed market conditions.<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\"><em><strong>Opinion by: Kadan Stadelmann, chief technology officer of Komodo Platform<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">Crypto didn\u2019t get wrecked by regulators or some shadowy conspiracy. The industry did this to itself. It handed control of cross-chain liquidity to a handful of intermediaries, who it called \u201cbridges,\u201d wrapped assets in slick tickers, and pretended that was decentralization.<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">Every time one of these house-of-cards systems collapses, billions vanish, and the rest of the industry shrugs, as if these were isolated accidents instead of warning sirens blaring across the ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/bridges-crypto-next-ftx\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-chain bridges concentrate risk and centralize trust, creating vulnerabilities that could trigger a systemic crypto crisis under stressed market conditions. Opinion by: Kadan Stadelmann, chief technology officer of Komodo Platform Crypto didn\u2019t get wrecked by regulators or some shadowy conspiracy. The industry did this to itself. It handed control of cross-chain liquidity to a handful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":543790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-543789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/543790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}