Just saw someone complaining that block builders are doing bundles to jack up gas fees, but honestly retail users don’t need to know too much detail.

To put it simply, block building is just bundling rooms. A bundle is like cutting in line and slipping the packer a tip so they put your transaction ahead. All those fancy things like order-flow auctions and MEV taxes sound mysterious, but in essence, whoever gives the builder more benefits gets the best meat.

Retail users only need to remember one thing: don’t rush to submit on-chain transactions. First check the pending on the chain to see whether any high-gas transactions have been flipped around repeatedly. At that time, nine out of ten transactions are basically just brick-laying material for the builders. After all, AI agents doing automated trading are already competitive enough—if you blindly rush into the mempool too, you’re just adding trouble for yourself.

Anyway, I’m more conservative: either wait for the “dawn” where gas is burned out, or spend money to buy some premium node RPC. No matter what, the bear market is just something you slowly endure—let’s leave it at that for now.