Recently, many people have been asking me whether retail investors need to understand block builders, bundles, and such... I think understanding enough to "know how your transaction being bundled might affect its execution" is about right. To put it simply, you don't need to know how to write bundles or study each builder's network of relationships, but you should know: the transaction you submit might not be included in the block in the order you expect, it could be front-run, sandwiched, especially during volatile market conditions.

Things like cross-chain bridge hacks seem distant from us, but they actually remind me of one thing: don't believe too much in "once I click, it will definitely succeed immediately." And after oracle anomalies, everyone starts collectively "waiting for confirmation," which is a pretty real consensus—waiting isn't cowardice, it's an acknowledgment that on-chain data can be wrong, delayed, or exploited.

My current approach is roughly: for large or sensitive operations, prefer to be slower, chase fewer slippages, and split into batches if necessary. Next time, I might review the bundling paths behind my commonly used routers/aggregators... Do you usually deliberately avoid certain trading times?