Lately I've been looking into the "block builder, bundle" stuff again. Honestly, retail investors don't need to push themselves to become researchers. Just keep in mind: what you think of as "I make a trade = I enter a block," actually involves someone packing and ordering transactions behind the scenes, and they can even bundle a bunch of trades together and insert them all at once; so if you sometimes see tight slippage settings but still get sandwiched, or notice strange order sequences before and after the same operation, it’s not necessarily your mistake—maybe someone is manipulating the narrative.

For someone like me who leans toward trend-following and only enters after a pullback, three key understandings are enough: First, don’t chase small pools or coins that are obviously being watched, especially in the first few minutes before opening; second, if you can use relatively reliable routing/aggregation tools, don’t manually split orders recklessly—at least don’t expose yourself to being too "predictable"; third, avoid trading at the "everyone is trading at the same price level" point—better to earn a little less than to squeeze into a crowded entry.

As for deeper stuff like the builder ecosystem, who’s collaborating with whom, how exactly the bundle runs... I feel it’s similar to the daily debates on Layer 2 about TPS, fees, subsidies—lively but ultimately for retail investors, it boils down to: are the costs lower, is execution more stable, and don’t be used as liquidity material. We’ll talk more next time.