Yeah handling txs on other chains is quite a pain dev-wise,not just costs but trust as well and being able to find them to begin with. We hope VSC will be able to help out quite a lot there to make it easier not just for us but any project on hive to easily connect to other chains.
I foresee not many financial troubles in the near future, it's not based on me thinking we will blow up and get a lot of new money coming in from new players (although of course that'd be great), but it's mainly at this point in time where we have a 3d team focusing on our assets that we're a bit tight with funding. Since that's a one-time thing, however, once that's done we'll be back to having extra funds we can start planning on using on other things.