I keep seeing that kind of “coincidental transfer” again: A just finished buying, and B immediately takes the baton and dumps right after—then conspiracy theories start popping up in the group chat… I went ahead and traced the path, and most of it can be explained. It’s basically the same router/aggregator bouncing things around, with a few swap rounds in between; in the end, everything lands in the same market-making pool, and the timing makes it look very “coincidental.” On-chain, things are actually pretty straightforward—it’s just that humans love to invent stories from what they see.

What’s infuriating is that some of it really isn’t coincidence—someone is deliberately waiting for your slippage tolerance window and taking a cut right there. The funny part is that everyone complains about “being targeted,” yet they’re still running around with an open mempool left exposed. Lately, that same flavor shows up in chain gaming too—the whole inflation + studios + token price spiral is pretty much the same recipe. Once you split the data out, it’s crystal clear: who’s producing, who’s dumping, who’s absorbing… First, make sure protections are enabled—don’t just rely on prayers.