5/ With intents, users can transfer value between chains at a high speed and low cost without taking on additional risk. This is exactly how Across works, and it’s the key to its growing dominance in the cross-chain ecosystem.

6/ This brings us to two conclusions: Canonical asset bridging is the only secure way to transfer value, and intents designs are the best way to use canonical assets. Learn more via our blog.

4/ Using canonical assets does not introduce new trust assumptions, but it can be costly and slow. Many bridges use DvP mechanisms to transfer canonical assets, but there is a better method: intents.

3/ Bridges that use representative assets do not require external capital as users simply lock up their assets and mint a new one, and they can do so at high speed. But these solutions introduce trust: the user trusts that they’ll be able to retrieve their native assets.

2/ Bridges that use canonical assets require external capital to fill orders quickly. The bridge can only function if LPs commit capital to liquidity pools.