Chainlink CEO, Sergey Nazarov on why Chainlink CCIP leads cross-chain security, citing multi-network decentralization, risk management layer, and separate codebases preventing single points of failure

Chainlink's separate-codebase pitch matches the actual bridge post-mortems: Wormhole's $325M hack was a single signature bug, Nomad's $190M drain was an empty merkle root, Ronin's $600M was 5-of-9 multisig keys. CCIP's Active Risk Management Network works as a kill switch, trading decentralization for safety — LayerZero's ULN model takes the opposite bet. Yet CCIP handles a fraction of LayerZero's volume. Shippers pick latency and UX over extra security layers.

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