I’m drinking tea while scrolling through MEV battle reports, and the more I read, the more I feel that this on-chain “queue jumping” thing—plainly speaking—isn’t mainly about those bots that run fast. It’s about the transactions from ordinary people that they think will settle in order: slippage gets eaten up, the execution price turns worse, and even when they click to enable protection, they still get snatched around for a bite. Ordering itself isn’t evil; the issue is that information asymmetry plus speed differences make it look like a black box.

Recently, when cross-chain bridges were stolen again and when oracles’ pricing glitched out, everyone suddenly learned to “wait for confirmation before saying anything,” which is really a kind of reluctant consensus: don’t trust what you see at first glance too much. Anyway, I’m more like someone who watches tools and rules rather than someone who complains about the chain being unfair every day… I’ve already taken care of little things like anti-sniping, limiting slippage, and batching transactions—at least so I don’t waste time paying tuition.