Lately, people have been talking about “sandwich + arbitrage = opportunity,” and it makes me want to laugh… That so-called “price difference” you see on-chain is, in plain terms, probably just the fee source that someone else is watching when you place your order. Don’t rush to be the hunter—more often than not, you’re just putting the slippage on your own face.

Especially now, with the narrative of AI Agents and automated trading getting louder and louder—constantly talking about “fully automatic capturing of opportunities.” But when it actually comes to on-chain interaction, nobody talks about who gets the permissions, which route it follows, or whether you can change parameters at any time. In any case, once a screenshot of the profit gets posted, the security details are treated as nonexistent.

As for myself, I’d rather go slower for now—I’ll first check contract permissions, the blacklist, whether it can be paused, and the unlock list, then decide whether to treat trades as public “feeding”… As for whether you think this is an opportunity or a “payment gateway,” that’s up to you to judge.