The third time I see someone on the chain being sandwich-munched and looking confused asking me "Is this an arbitrage opportunity"… Honestly, that tiny slippage you see is often just the gas fee others pay to do their trades. You place a market order, set a higher tolerance, and MEV searchers come running like they smell something, lining up. In the end, you think you're grabbing an opportunity, but you're actually paying others' transaction fees.

Recently, the "compound yield" from staking and shared security has been quite the topic of heated debate. My instinct is: the more like a nested doll the yield is, the more like invisible permissions the risk resembles. Usually, it stays hidden until something goes wrong, and then a chain of issues unfolds. Anyway, I now prefer to do less—set limit orders, split transactions, avoid hot pools. Moving slowly is fine; at least I won't become a liquidity ATM. That's all for now.