No matter how long I’ve been diving, I still want to say: the "opportunities" you see on the chain are often just the lettuce in someone else's sandwich...

Sandwich/arbitrage sounds pretty appealing, but honestly it’s just about who’s faster and who takes the longer route.
You place a market order thinking you’re grabbing a deal, but first you get quoted a higher price, then it gets slammed back, and in the end you pay fees plus slippage, while others casually take it all away.

Recently, bridges get hacked again, oracles sometimes report outrageous prices, and everyone rushes to “wait for confirmation” — that consensus is pretty real: it’s not stability, it’s fear.
Anyway, before I place an order now, I check if the pool is deep enough and how many hops the routing takes, and I set a limit price if I can.
Don’t send yourself into someone else’s lunchbox.