On team turnover

I answered this. The question is neither of technical nor of financial matter. People leave, people join.

If you have done the cross-DHF benchmarking analysis, would you publish it?

I wont publish it, no. This was done to assure our team we are going in the right direction, not to start more drama. You can do it yourself, its all public.

The previous proposal explicitly committed to cross-chain features

Yes, and it delivered that inside the proposal time.

audit found three real issues in EVM bridge code, which is exactly why a clear answer here matters, rather than a deflection of the concern.

Igors audit was Claude doing it, you are aware of that, right? Nothing was deflected, it was clearly stated that all that Igor found has been found already and it wasnt live, its on testnet.
Everything we do is Ai assisted. All our team members have Claude subscriptions.