The metaphor of “bridges” is being used in the blockchain/ subnet space

[professor rat]

Mazur’s title is “Bridges between Geometry and Number Theory”. The metaphor of “bridges” to describe what unifies mathematics gets a workout in a recent Quanta article about Ana Cariani and the Langlands program entitled The Mathematician Who Delights in Building Bridges (and subtitled Ana Caraiani seeks to unify mathematics through her work on the ambitious Langlands program.) 

https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=12584#respond