Lately, I’ve been thinking about the MEV “cutting in line” setup again. Plainly speaking, it’s not about who’s smarter—it’s about who’s closer to the ordering rights. For ordinary people, the most direct experiences boil down to two things: you clearly press the button but end up buying at a higher price or selling at a lower price, or a swap just fails in a single transaction and you still pay a bit of fees for nothing. For market makers and arbitrageurs, it’s an opportunity; for people chasing pumps and dumping out, it’s an invisible tax—the more急 you are, the easier you are to get exploited.

Some people say, “Then just use on-chain data tools.” But over the past couple of days, haven’t people also been complaining that the label system lags behind, or even that it can be used to mislead others… So now I treat the data more like a medical checkup report: it’s a hint, not a court verdict. If you really want risk control, first check whether the protocol has any outrageous permissions, whether the transaction path can be bypassed, and don’t set slippage too tight—moving a bit slower can actually save money.

I’m going to get to work.