Lately, I've been monitoring on-chain data, and I'm a bit chilled by this MEV "front-running" scheme: it's not really the players who are affected, but ordinary users' small swaps, mints, or even margin positions close to liquidation. When the order changes, slippage, transaction prices, and gas all fluctuate accordingly. On the surface, it looks like you're slow, but honestly, you're just not in the same queue.

AI agents and automated trading have also been quite popular recently. Some people use them to tell stories, others to actually interact. But from what I see, the more automated it gets, the more I fear "default trust": signatures, authorizations, routing choices, whether you've been front-run... When nothing goes wrong, it's called efficiency; when something does, it's a black box.

My biggest fear isn't losing money, but losing control—losing a bit less can be tolerated, but when the process is opaque and you don't know who you lost to, that's the most uncomfortable. Anyway, I now prefer limit orders over market orders when I can, reduce authorizations as much as possible, and accept being a bit slower.