Recently, on-chain activity keeps telling us to “wait”—wait for confirmation, wait for the callback, wait until you’ve finally figured it out. In plain terms, MEV is when someone can cut in line. On the surface, it may just look like my swap got front-run and there was a bit of extra slippage, but what could actually be affected is everyone’s everyday expectation of “fairness” on-chain. You think transactions will be processed in the order you submit them, but the order itself is effectively being auctioned off. And on top of that, some small projects’ liquidity is already thin—get front-run a few times and people start questioning life.

Recently, everyone’s been talking about modularization and the DA layer, and developers are absolutely thrilled. For someone like me as a user, it’s mostly: so when I click to trade, can it stop being so mystical? Anyway, my approach is pretty old-school: don’t chase the hype—use limit orders and split orders as much as possible. I’d rather it be slower. I’ll wait until I’ve fully thought through the risks myself.