🚨THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CROSS-CHAIN BRIDGES AND CROSS-CHAIN SWAPS ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• [1] Crosschain bridges and swaps both get your tokens from one chain to another. They don't get you there the same way, and the difference shows up exactly when something goes wrong. A traditional bridge typically works by locking your asset on the source chain and minting a wrapped version of it on the destination chain. That wrapped token represents your original asset, backed by whatever is locked, but it isn't the native asset itself which is why you sometimes land on the destination chain holding something you then need a second swap to convert into what you actually wanted in the first place. [2] As for cross-chain swaps, it works differently. Here, you'll have to specify the destination asset directly, and the execution layer coordinates settlement across both chains toward that exact result no wrapped intermediate step for you to manage afterward. The custody model differs too. A bridge usually depends on funds sitting in a bridge contract or being managed by a custodian while the wrapped asset circulates an ongoing trust assumption for as long as that wrapped token exists. A coordinated cross-chain swap, like the ones STONfi runs through Omniston, is designed around all-or-nothing settlemens. Meaning that, either both sides complete under the quoted conditions, or the swap fails and returns the funds to the users wallet. $STON $GRAM