I just saw a post about MEV, and I’ve been thinking about it these past few days too. Honestly, when it comes to on-chain “cutting in line,” if we’re talking about fairness, big trades and bots can just run faster—while smaller orders end up suffering worse slippage. I got burned on a swap the other day: I posted my order first, and then I watched someone else take off with the same pool. My execution price ended up 0.3% higher. It’s not that machines are bad—it’s just that who should these ordering privileges actually belong to?

Recently, there’s also been a heated debate about re-staking. People say the “matryoshka” risk is high—but underneath it all, it’s still the same set of orderers fighting over priority. Sharing security is good, sure, but if the underlying rules are even slightly skewed, ordinary users end up being the ones affected “along the way.”

Anyway, my own approach is to use aggregators that can help guard against MEV as much as possible. I don’t really know about the rest—I just feel that even though on-chain transparency is transparency, is it truly transparent down to the ordering details?

Forget it—let’s leave it at that for now.