I used to treat bridge fees as background noise. Just another cost between chains.

But after a few days inside Genius Terminal, I started noticing the real drag wasn’t always the visible fee. It was the hidden slippage that appeared before execution even finished.

GBP routing materially cheaper than DeBridge with almost identical fill times changes behavior fast. Especially when flows stay private long enough to avoid becoming obvious on-chain intent before settlement.

That part matters more than most traders admit.

The more fragmented liquidity gets, the more wallets start behaving differently depending on size, timing, and exposure risk. I keep seeing experienced users separate bridge activity from trading wallets entirely, not for security, but to reduce signal leakage and preserve execution quality across routes.

Casual traders still think bridging is infrastructure.

Terminal users already treat it as part of the trade itself.

Honestly, I think that shift says a lot about where on-chain markets are heading. Visibility keeps becoming its own form of slippage.

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maybe that’s what the market is slowly pricing in now.