I just canceled an on-chain swap, and even though the gas went up a bit, I still got “cut in line”—the execution price slid faster than my hands can shake… To put it plainly, in this MEV ordering game, the first ones to get hurt are small users: you think you’re getting filled at the price you see, but in reality you’re wedged in the middle and used as padding; market makers and arbitrageurs, though, are the ones who’re actually glad to know—because it’s all public on-chain, and anyone can抢.

Lately, the modularization and DA-layer narratives are hot again. Developers have been talking nonstop, while ordinary users are left completely baffled: swap to another chain, swap to another layer, and in the end you still can’t escape the problem of “who gets in line first.” Anyway, I’d rather do fewer trades now—force slippage to be fixed, reduce my position size. If I can avoid going on-chain when it’s congested, I won’t go. Whether it’s fair or unfair can be debated later—first, just stay alive.