Just brewed a cup of tea and scrolled through the blockchain, and the more I look at it, the more I think MEV is basically "cutting in line"—it's not that you're slow, but that someone can see how the queue is arranged in advance and snatch a second to push themselves to the front. The impact isn't just on those chasing hot trends; ordinary people swapping tokens or doing small arbitrage, when slippage suddenly widens or the transaction price looks strange, often gets snatched away effortlessly. You think you're trading with the market, but actually you're playing against the sorting rules and faster machines.

Recently, someone linked ETF capital flows with U.S. stock market risk appetite, and it feels like everyone is trying to find a "main thread" to explain the rise and fall, but on-chain activity is more like fighting for a lane in a narrow alley—macro narratives can't control these tiny unfairnesses... Anyway, I now hesitate more before placing orders; I prefer to go slower and split into smaller parts rather than become someone else's fuel.

What I've learned isn't a skill, but that: on this chain, don't believe too much that "fairness will happen automatically."