Today I got “cut in line” on-chain and educated again. I originally wanted to swap a small position on the DEX, but in the blink of an eye the execution price floated away. Slippage is like writing poetry on my face: you think you’re trading, but actually you’re paying tuition to someone else. To put it plainly, in this MEV ordering game, the ones who hurt first are still people like us—slow, thin retail traders. When liquidity is shallow, it becomes even more obvious. You even confirm in the same second, yet I end up in the back of the line, drinking in the cold wind.

Recently, I’ve also seen plenty of people complaining that validators/miners are getting increasingly well-fed, and their income looks pretty good. But the sense of fairness drops even faster… Anyway, before I place an order now, I check the depth first. I place small orders and split them into a few trades; if I can avoid chasing, I avoid it. At least don’t treat emotions like transaction fees. It’s just that I’m still believing that on-chain, I can gradually explain this thing of “who comes first and who comes later,” so that every execution doesn’t feel like I got sniped in the dark.