Lately I've been looking into the MEV "front-running" game again, basically whoever gets their transaction into the block first gets the advantage. The biggest impact isn't necessarily from big players, but rather people like me who place small orders to save on slippage... If I don't tune the parameters properly, I get sniped, and it's my own fault for being careless. What's more annoying is that everyone is competing over transaction ordering; on-chain it looks transparent and open, but in reality, it feels like waiting in line only to be cut by scalpers. Thinking about the recent wave of inflation and studio bots flooding blockchain games, causing token prices to spiral and crash, in a way it's also "who can insert faster and better" eating up the remaining players. Sigh, I should go update my simple spreadsheet again, at least so I don't keep getting taken for a ride as a chive.