The title is about cross-chain but the whole content is about shilling NEAR. There's nothing new with Aurora EVM. Simply put, it's just a bridge that allows you to migrate your tokens from ETH blockchain to NEAR blockchain. It can't even compare with Solana's "Wormhole". Wormhole connects Sonala vs a lot of blockchain, including BSC, ETH and LUNA. That's not to mention LUNA's Terra Bridge which connects LUNA vs ETH, BSC and ONE.

In short, bridges like Aurora EVM are just a short cut to attract money flow from this blockchain (usually ETH) to that blockchain. When people no longer find benefit, they will withdraw their money from blockchains that were bridged into. So far there isn't any bridge that can connect all blockchains out there together. Any project that can do it, it's the ultimate cross-chain.