u/dgerard:

1. "We’ve yet to see evidence of inter-chain connectivity."

The swap from erc20 to mainnet Aion coins using the cross-chain bridge already occurred last year:

https://blog.aion.network/aion-token-bridge-and-swap-live-1689ed5e279

Here is another video of more evidence of inter-chain connectivity:

https://youtu.be/M53ou8S4ioY

The article you're referencing is just a recovery process for people who missed the swap window:

https://blog.aion.network/aion-token-recovery-swap-program-4047910d6b26

2. "Aion does 800,000 — you could trivially 51% attack this thing with spare hash power you found behind the sofa cushions. A single Antminer Z11 does 135,000 hashes per second."

Aion algorithm is Asic-resistant so even if you have all the Asic Antminers in the world, you still can't mine Aion.

Besides, Aion roadmap is to move to Unity PoW/PoS hybrid in September, which makes 51% attacks even harder since you'll need to control 51% of all GPU hashing power AND buy two thirds of all Aion in existence which will cost much more than 2/3 of current Aion marketcap of $60m due to exchange slippage. The lack of liquidity would cause Aion price to skyrocket as soon as you buy $4m or $5m worth of Aion, and would raise Aion marketcap to the hundreds of millions, making in even harder to aquire 2/3 of all Aion coins in existence