The risk that assets moving between different blockchains through a cross-chain bridge get lost, locked, or fail to arrive as expected, due to flaws in the bridge's security design, verification method, or liquidity structure — an additional layer of risk a DeFAI agent takes on when executing cross-chain strategies.

A token minted on a destination chain through a cross-chain bridge mechanism to represent an original asset locked on a source chain, theoretically pegged one-to-one in value to that original asset — letting an asset that only natively exists on one chain be used within another chain's DeFi ecosystem.