I took a look around the mempool, and then I saw a bunch of bundles trying to front-run—gas was spiking like fireworks. Honestly, retail users don’t really need to figure out how block builders get in line, or those complicated MEV strategies. You just need to know that when you send a transaction and there’s congestion, ordinary transactions will very likely get inserted ahead of—this is why sometimes setting gas higher can actually make it slower.

The points people grind out on testnets, and the speculation that tokens will be issued on the mainnet—I’m also watching. Anyway, I don’t believe in free lunches from the sky. I’ll first see who’s profiting from this expectation gap.

An old guy in the group asked me whether to learn how to write bundles. I told him no—you should first figure out how to look at the mempool before anything else.