Recently, I’ve seen a bunch of people talking about MEV, fair ordering, and the like, basically saying that on-chain people can “cut in line.” You think that just by clicking to swap, you’re waiting in line to complete the transaction, but in reality, you get sandwiched and exploited back and forth, causing slippage to increase, and worse transaction execution. In the end, it’s the ordinary users’ emotions and transaction fees that pay the price… For someone like me, who gets annoyed just by pop-up fake signature windows, I feel even more powerless against this kind of “legitimate cutting in line.” The signatures are real signatures, it’s just that the order has been passively manipulated.

What’s even more outrageous is that now people are hyping up modularity and the DA layer, developers are excited like it’s New Year’s, while users are confused: I just want to be less sandwiched and less front-run, why is there another layer of terminology? Anyway, I still stick to my old habits: weekly permission cleanup, avoid unlimited approvals if I can set limits, stop if I see strange transaction paths, don’t mess up your own wallet.