Last night, I was staring at the blockchain watching a big token swap—the slippage was going through the roof. My first thought was that I’d stumbled on an arbitrage opportunity, but when I opened it… it was basically just delivering a meal to sandwich traders. Put simply, that “price spread” you see is often just someone squeezing you in the middle to collect tolls, and you still end up paying an extra layer of fees—plus that added stress/cost on top.

Now everyone’s talking about modularization and the DA layer; developers can go on and on about it, but users (including me) mostly wonder: what does any of this have to do with me losing less? Anyway, I’m leaning toward small tests and splitting my orders in batches. I’d rather miss out than let take-profit turn into someone else’s profit. That’s it for now.