Lately I’ve been thinking about that MEV “front-running” issue again. Put simply, whoever can see first and get queued into a block first is more likely to squeeze other people’s trade prices. It doesn’t just affect high-frequency bots—when ordinary users click swap or place an order, slippage suddenly gets bigger and execution gets worse, and psychologically it’s easy to wonder whether you’re always half a step behind… it’s pretty depressing.

Even more awkward is that while everyone talks about “on-chain fairness,” in practice it’s increasingly about competing relationships and tools. It’s a bit like the fight over NFT royalties: creators want stable income, traders want a more liquid and cheaper secondary market, and in the end, no one is willing to give an inch.

My approach right now is very conservative. I’d rather do less—use batching and limit orders, and if I can avoid complex routing, I will. Sorting/ordering things probably can’t be completely cleaned up in the short term, but if the rules can be made more transparent and the costs more predictable, at least it won’t feel like every time you hit confirm is like drawing lots. That’s all for now.