Just opened my phone and saw a bunch of pop-up red notification dots: the xx testnet tasks have been added again, the leaderboard has been refreshed… Everyone is speculating about whether the mainnet will actually issue tokens. When I clicked in, my first reaction wasn’t “go for it,” but rather: which transactions end up at the front, and which ones get pushed to the back?

To put it simply, this kind of MEV “queue jumping” most directly affects ordinary people’s slippage and execution prices. You think you hit confirm, but when your transaction is queued on-chain, someone else wedges themselves in between you—so you either end up paying more, or the transaction fails outright and you waste gas for nothing. It’s even more awkward when doing incentive tasks: everyone crowds in for points, the ordering gets messed up, and the ones who suffer the most are the slow ones—or those who didn’t set their parameters aggressively enough.

Whenever I see update announcements like “fair ordering” or “anti-sniping,” I’ll first dig into the implementation details: are they hiding the mempool, or are they just changing the name… Anyway, don’t just take slogans at face value. If it’s truly fair, it comes down to who controls the ordering and whether there are verifiable rules. That’s all for now—there are too many red dots, so I’m turning off notifications first.