Lately, there’s been more arguing about MEV, ordering, and fairness—basically, it’s just online “cutting in line.” Who can stand that? In fact, the biggest ones to get hurt aren’t those big-ticket arbitrage guys—they’re already used to playing this game. The ones who get unlucky are ordinary people: you think you’re getting filled when you press a button, but then you get shoved aside, slippage costs you a whole chunk, and you may even fail and still end up paying gas for nothing.

Last night, I watched a swap: 0x8f3…c2b was placed first. But in the same block, it was still squeezed into the middle by two later transactions with higher priority fees, and in the end, the execution price was only off by a tiny bit. The whole thing felt very much like “I follow the process, but the process doesn’t follow me.” Even funnier is that when the new L1/L2 launches an incentive to boost TVL, old users start complaining about “digging up the yield and selling.” I can understand it: you’ve been queuing properly on-chain, then all of a sudden a bunch of people rush in to cut the line with subsidies—the feeling of fairness instantly drops out. Anyway… I trust execution details even more now: tighten limit pricing and slippage, chase hot pools less, and don’t turn yourself into a case study.