These days, I’ve seen retail investors complaining about “queue jumping on the chain,” which basically refers to MEV and transaction ordering issues. People think that submitting a transaction means everyone lines up and waits their turn, but in reality, the moment you click confirm, you're already racing against a bunch of bots… I looked at a few transaction timelines, and even within the same block, your buy order is sandwiched between two others, with the front and back cuts eating up the slippage completely. The ones most affected are small traders chasing quick gains and setting wide slippage, the more urgent they are, the worse it gets.

Validators/miners’ earnings have increased, and everyone can see that, but where this “money comes from” is quite awkward: often, it’s taken from the pockets of people who don’t understand. Anyway, now I just reduce slippage and split orders when I see popular pools. If it’s really bad, I just don’t touch it—better to miss out than to be someone’s fee and lunch. That’s all for now.