Recently, watching on-chain transactions, it’s becoming more and more like queuing to buy bubble tea: you think you're in line, but someone slips a tip through the side door and takes it first. MEV’s “cutting in line” approach, on the surface, claims to improve efficiency, but for retail investors, it just means bigger slippage and easier front-running of orders, sometimes even getting sniped, which can really mess with your mindset. Not to mention now everyone is complaining about the income structure of validators/miners—it's increasingly looking like they’re making a living by sorting transactions.

What I fear most isn’t losing money, but that you don’t even know who you lost to or at what second. Especially with NFTs, when the floor price moves, liquidity is already thin, and then someone cuts in and rushes ahead, making trades feel like they’re being dragged along… Anyway, I’m拆 (breaking down) what I can now, chasing fewer hot trends, using limit orders instead of market orders when possible, just sticking to that for now.