Recently, people keep asking me, "Do you need to understand blockchain builders and bundling?" Honestly, retail investors only need to understand enough to protect themselves: knowing that when you click swap, it doesn't go directly on-chain, and it might be bundled, front-run, or even that your idea of "transaction in order" is just your own imagination. Watching the mempool like scrolling through social media can be exciting, but don’t think of yourself as a hacker... Just remember two things: don’t use too loose slippage, and don’t rush in when liquidity is thin. When necessary, use privacy transactions or aggregators for protection—at least don’t send yourself into someone else’s sandwich.

On a tangent, about social mining lately—"attention is mining" sounds exciting, but on-chain, the ones who can really monetize attention are often the ones who understand how to bundle, not the ones posting... Anyway, I’d rather make fewer trades than become free fuel.