Why bother with cross-chain bridging? Interacting directly with Runes and BRC-20 on Bitcoin L1 is the right way.

Instead of going around in circles with wrapped tokens or sidechains, it's better to achieve three-way exchanges at the base layer. A single transaction completes the process, no intermediaries needed, no extra steps—this is the power of native interoperability.

Once Bitcoin's base layer supports atomic composability, the liquidity landscape of the entire ecosystem will change. Asset movement across standards will shift from a technical challenge to a standard feature. This is what L1 should be doing.