Recently, I’ve been looking into the MEV “ordering game” again. Basically, whoever can cut the line first can nudge the price slightly in their favor. The biggest impact isn’t necessarily from big players—often it’s from ordinary trades that go all-in and even set their slippage tolerance as “too conservative.” You think your trade executed, but it lands in the position you least want, or you get clipped in one move.

In the group, over the past couple of days, rumors about stablecoin regulation, reserve audits, and de-pegging have been repeatedly forwarded. When everyone panics, they rush—yet in the rush, people easily forget that on-chain isn’t a line for buying tickets. Someone can change the queue. My approach is very down-to-earth: if you can use limit orders, don’t use market orders. It’s better to tolerate a little more slippage and wait a few more seconds than to become a cash machine for others.

I treat “simplicity” as a trap: the moment you see something like “instant execution, brainless swapping, definitely nothing will go wrong,” you should stop and pause first.