Recently, everyone is criticizing MEV again, saying that ordering isn’t fair and that miners/validators are making way too comfortable a living… I actually think retail investors don’t need to study “block builders, bundles” to the point of being able to write scripts; knowing three things is basically enough: between you submitting a transaction and it getting put on-chain, someone will “package and order” it; the same transaction isn’t executed just because you submitted it first; and some routing and sandwiches just use this gap to take your slippage.

To put it bluntly, you just need to treat it as a market-structure risk where the “trade execution order might get cut in line,” and then stop where you have control: don’t use outrageous slippage, don’t chase pools that have just started to pick up volume, use reliable private / anti-sandwich routing (use it if it’s available; don’t force it if it’s not), and split large amounts into smaller transactions. Going deeper into the builder ecosystem and the details of bundles doesn’t add much value to most people—it only makes you more and more anxious… I’ve been staring at on-chain data for the past couple of days until my eyes hurt and my neck feels a bit stiff, so I’ll stop here for now.