Just came across some bundle deal data from block builders, and it’s kind of interesting. Honestly, retail users really don’t need to get the whole builders’ routine down to a science—just knowing that miners are using tips to cut in line, and that there aren’t many chances to catch an airdrop, is enough. Basically, those on-chain packaging bots are just a group of people in the background helping transactions line up—whoever tips more gets to go first, and we can only watch the show.

Yesterday I glanced at an address starting with 0x; just in bundle fees it paid almost half an ETH. Wow… this kind of competition is even more cutthroat than those bonus-hunters who are always chasing freebies. Lately, the airdrop season’s points-based system has been run like punching a clock at work—Sybil checks are flipped through and rechecked over and over. If you ask me, it’s better to lie low and just watch; anyway, I don’t have the speed to snipe a spot on the whitelist.