My phone just popped up a bunch of red dots again, "xx has been pulled again" "a certain celebrity tweeted"... It makes people itchy to watch. But honestly, the real pain on the chain isn’t that you didn’t catch the hot topic, but that you think you’re in line when someone is actually cutting in front.

With MEV, the more I look at it, the more it resembles a succulent cutting: the top layer is the moment you click swap, the next layer is how the transaction is ordered / how block producers arrange transactions. The ones most affected are usually not the “long-term holders who do nothing,” but those who chase meme hype with large slippage — when you rush in, others have room to sandwich you, pushing the price up, and you think the market is just too fast.

So veteran players advise newcomers not to take the last step, but I think the essence is: during attention shifts, it’s easiest to end up “paying a tip to the person cutting in line.” I now prefer to do two fewer trades, tighten parameters, and if it doesn’t go through, so be it. That’s how I’ll start.