Recently, I keep seeing everyone get stuck worrying about the unlocking calendar, and it feels like that same kind of anxiety of “sell pressure on the road” is actually the same thing as getting in line ahead on-chain: you think you’ve queued up pretty well, but someone slips in from the side door. Put simply, MEV isn’t just about robots taking a bit of transaction fees—more than that, it widens slippage for ordinary people and makes the trade order feel like drawing lots at random, especially those few seconds when you’re confirming on a DEX. Your mindset really gets worn down.

I don’t really expect the chain to suddenly become a utopia; ordering power is power. But at least the rules need to be made clear: who can insert, how much they can insert, and who bears the cost. Anyway, right now I’m willing to take one extra step for safety—spend an extra few dozen seconds before trading to check the simulation and slippage. If the amount is larger, split it into multiple orders. I’d rather be a bit more troublesome than become an “educated by fairness” example. That’s it for now—slowly observe.