Lately, I’ve been getting a bit annoyed by how closely I’m watching MEV. What people call “queue jumping,” put plainly, is selling transaction ordering like it’s a resource. The biggest impact isn’t really on those big, seasoned traders—they already split their orders and use private routes. The unlucky ones are ordinary users who just tap a swap on a DEX or place a small order; their slippage gets swallowed, and then they think they’re just making jittery mistakes. And then there’s liquidation and frontrunning, which only amplifies the volatility—by the time the effects ripple through to the last round, people who get hit mostly just feel like the on-chain market is unfair.

Over the past couple of days, I’ve also seen RWA, US Treasury yields, and on-chain yield products compared side by side, and it feels kind of the same. You think you’re buying “yield,” but you’re really also buying a bunch of uncertainty around ordering and execution. Anyway, whenever I run into sensitive transactions, I’d rather go slower and split things into smaller chunks—if I can use protected routing, I’ll use it. I’ll avoid going toe-to-toe and hard-fighting queue-jumping machines… That’s it for now.