Over the past couple of days, I’ve been watching the chain again, and getting “cut in line” has left me feeling pretty helpless… MEV/ordering—put simply—means someone can see what’s coming earlier and press the button earlier than you. You think you’re trading with the market, but in reality you’re trading with the queuing rules. The biggest impact isn’t from those big accounts manually clicking. Instead, it’s from people like me, doing small swaps into stablecoins and trying to save a bit on slippage—once you get squeezed out, your mindset just collapses.

When that wave of trouble hit the cross-chain bridge again, I immediately stopped doing cross-chain operations—I’d rather be slower. And during that oracle’s abnormal pricing, everyone was “waiting for confirmation,” so I did too, and backed off. It didn’t feel like rational decision-making; it felt like I’d been taught, turning into a conditioned reflex. I used to pay attention to a few people who talked about “fair ordering,” but later I found out they also talk about the chain/market scenarios that benefit them… Forget it—I unfollowed them. I’m going to lower my own trading frequency first.