Just now, reviewing an on-chain interaction, I got a bit scared... I almost clicked the default slippage, but then I took a look at the mempool, and a bunch of "priority" transactions ahead blocked the way. It felt like waiting in line to buy bubble tea and being pushed in by scalpers. Honestly, with MEV and this kind of transaction ordering, the ones truly affected aren't the big players (they have tools), but us who are doing things step-by-step according to a checklist, with higher costs and still not guaranteed to get what we should.

I've also been thinking about the kind of collapse caused by inflation and studio-driven pump-and-dump in blockchain games. It’s actually quite similar to the "who can act first, who can grab the position" scenario. Once the sense of fairness is gone, it only spirals downward. Anyway, now I check the contract and fund flow a couple of times before interacting, preferring to go slower and avoid becoming fuel for the fire.