These past two days, I’ve been watching on-chain sandwich attacks and arbitrage—and the more I watch, the more it feels like I’m just standing by while other people split the cake: you think you’ve found an “opportunity,” but really you’re just paying fees to the faster crowd. Plain and simple: once slippage spikes and liquidity gets thin, coming in and going out is like groping around in the fog—reach out and you get snatched away.

That whole incident with the cross-chain bridge acting up? I straight-up got spooked. My assets weren’t even fully on the way yet, and I’d already lost half my confidence; after that time with the oracle’s abnormal quote, everyone collectively “waited for confirmation,” and honestly, that’s also pretty real—better to move slower than end up as fuel.
My coworker even asked why I didn’t rush in—why I didn’t “go in swinging.” I said with my speed, I might only be fast enough to make breakfast for someone else… forget it, I’ll stay low and wait for today.