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These days, the macro side has been talking about the direction of interest rates again. To put it simply, when interest rates rise, everyone's risk appetite shrinks, and this is quite obvious on-chain: positions that were willing to gamble start to shrink, and orders become more timid. I personally had a moment of "not understanding it, so I won't move," when there was strange volatility before and after a meeting. I thought about saving on transaction fees to do a trade on another chain, but then I saw a bunch of transactions jumping the queue in the mempool, with MEV making the ordering like opening a blind box. Retail traders have a reason to complain... I immediately canceled the transaction, preferring to miss out rather than suffer slippage. Anyway, when macro conditions are uncertain, it's better to keep positions light, calculate costs more precisely, and stay calmer.