Modular Economic Security: Bridge Disaster Insurance - Make Bridges Secure Again

Hyperlane proposes modular economic security for bridges, in which validators stake on origin-chain commitments and face slashing for fraudulent votes, with forfeited stake covering losses to defrauded recipients. The article argues this removes proving latency and complexity from bridging while giving protocols application-specific risk tolerances. It adds that rollups sharing Ethereum as a settlement layer could use one shared stake pool to secure their bridges, and that Hyperlane expects to launch its AVS integration with Eigenlayer in early 2024.