To be honest, lately I've been watching on-chain transactions, and the more I look, the more it feels like I'm just working for someone else... After a set of sandwich attacks and arbitrage, I thought I was catching some cheap deals, but it might just be that I was contributing fees and slippage to bots. Sometimes I can snag a little "market gift," but most of the time, just as I click confirm, the next second the price seems to be pulled away.

I'm not sure if I'm just too sensitive, but whenever TVL drops, I get more anxious: incentives are still being distributed, but protocol revenue hasn't kept up, and with less liquidity, it's easier to get squeezed. Now they're talking about modularity and the data layer, developers are excited, but users (including me) only care about one thing: can my swap avoid getting eaten again... Even if I insist I won't, I still lower my slippage and pray I don't get stuck.