Recently, people keep asking me: Should retail investors understand blockchain builders, bundles, and these things? I think it's enough to understand "don't consider yourself someone who can cut in line." To put it simply, you're waiting outside the mempool, while others are packaging transactions in the background through a dedicated channel. The "Why is it still slow even though I clicked first / why is the slippage so outrageous" you see is often not your shaky hands, but that you simply didn't get on that vehicle.

There are only three things you need to know: First, don't chase after newly appeared orders on the chain; the hotter they are, the easier they are to be used as fuel. Second, for large transactions, don't swallow it all at once—split into batches, set limits, and give enough slippage protection. Third, when you see extreme funding rates, people arguing about reversals in the group, or bubbles still being squeezed, assume "someone is designing emotions," and don't rush to send yourself into the next wave.

What I’ve learned isn’t techniques, but: admit that you are just the cheapest flow in the order stream.