The Hidden Risks of Crypto Bridges

Indexed Podcast · Feb 26, 2026 · 1h 3m

Today we’re joined by Luca Donnoh, Head of Research at L2BEAT, to dive deep into interoperability, bridging risk, and the hidden trust assumptions behind cross-chain assets.

In this episode we’re discussing:

- Luca’s background and path into crypto

- The L2 roadmap debate and Ethereum’s direction

- The new L2BEAT interoperability dataset

- Research goals behind the interop dashboard

- Lock & mint vs burn & mint bridges

- Intent-based bridging and counterparty risk

- Liquidity providers and bridge execution risk

- Canonical vs non-canonical tokens

- Wrapped asset systemic risk

- Multi-chain…