Recently, when I look at on-chain transaction records, it feels like the kind of situation you’d see on a subway morning rush where someone cuts the line. MEV, put simply, is when someone gets packaged before you— or when you’re wedged in the middle—so they make that little bit of extra profit. The ones really affected aren’t just the person who gets squeezed; slippage gets bigger, the execution price turns worse, and LPs end up passively getting screwed over too. In the end, everyone is paying a “toll” for “ordering rights.”

Then you look at Meme/celebrity call-the-moves hype and the way attention rotates—newcomers pile in with a single order and get targeted by bots right away. It really does mean you’re more likely to be the one picking up the last baton… these days, I just don’t chase the excitement. If I can use limit orders, I don’t use market orders. I’d rather get filled more slowly than become someone else’s fuel. Either way, when it comes to fairness, on-chain it’s more often “designed into the system,” not something people just shout into existence.