Last night I was browsing on-chain trades, and watching the same buy order get “cut in line” and shoved around a few times both before and after—I just couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off. To be blunt, this whole MEV sorting game isn’t just hurting the people “chasing the shitcoins.” Even someone like me—who occasionally does small-size market making and only posts orders with relatively thin liquidity—somehow ends up mysteriously taking an extra bite out of the spread. And in the end it turns into, “the better you are at front-running, the more fair it is”… it just feels wrong.

What’s even more annoying is that lately everyone’s been talking about rate-cut expectations and the U.S. Dollar Index. Risk assets are swinging together one moment and moving together the next; sentiment has been all over the place. And then on-chain adds yet another layer of “the queue rules can be rewritten at any time.” At one point I even had a fleeting thought about quitting and uninstalling my wallet plugins. But later I decided to hold on. After all, the most I can do is keep my position small, chase fewer hot trends, choose pools with thicker liquidity, and not try to go head-to-head with the bots. That’s it for now.