These past couple of days, I’ve been staring at on-chain trades so hard that I almost got carried away. Clearly, I only wanted to switch my position, but somehow every single trade feels like someone “cutting in line” in front of you… Put simply, when it comes to MEV/ordering, it’s not about who earns a few extra cents—it’s about the kind of trust you feel when you place an order: slippage suddenly gets bigger, the execution price gets squeezed a bit, small users are the first ones to get worn down, and even liquidity providers (LPs) often get inexplicably taken down a notch.

Later, I found an even more awkward part: while everyone is shouting about modularity and the DA layer narrative, developers are thrilled to no end, but users look totally bewildered. No matter how elegantly you split throughput, ordering still comes down to that same “who can grab it first, who comes first” logic—fairness doesn’t really get improved, and the experience still feels like you’re being shoved around in a crowded queue… Anyway, right now I only dare to split orders and chase prices less. If I can avoid complex routing, I won’t. That’s where I’m at.