These past couple of days, I’ve been thinking about MEV again. Put simply, on-chain “queuing” isn’t really first-come, first-served. You might think that once you press swap, it’s over—but in reality, someone could cut in line, squeeze your transaction, and slippage and the execution price end up quietly picking up the tab for you. The biggest impact isn’t from those who can write scripts. Instead, it’s people like me—ordinary users who use market prices in a very straightforward way and don’t want to set too many parameters, because it’s a hassle… Thinking about it makes me a bit anxious.

I’m making a rule for myself: as long as I notice that a particular pool or chain has a very strong “front-running” vibe recently, I’d rather make fewer trades, or split them into smaller ones and go slowly, rather than fight it head-on. Lately, modularization and the DA layer have been getting hyped, and developers are super excited. Users (including me) end up confused, and no matter how the story is told at the bottom layer, in the end the experience still comes down to whether “my transaction can get filled fairly.” For now, we’ll just keep it like this—if I can handle it, that’s enough.