Haha, I just saw someone in a group chat talking about block builders and bundles, and it suddenly reminded me that retail users really don’t need to go that deep. Those few people who spend every day calculating the mempool, sniping, and front-running—at the end of the day, it’s just a bunch of bots feeding each other, and it has little to do with us ordinary people. My approach is basically: just know that something like this exists, and that certain big players are racing to package transactions. Don’t really think you can get rich by relying on it. After all, I studied it for a while too, and I found that in the end, it’s not the people who understand the technology who actually make money, but those who understand how to package “attention.”

Recently, the attention cycle has been swinging hard. Even old players are advising newcomers not to take the last handoff, and I pretty much agree. Anyway, I’m just doing little fixes to my understanding: see whether on-chain execution can support the promises in a project’s whitepaper. If I can’t understand it, then I’ll treat it like too many patches have been applied, put it aside for now, and wait for the next fix. That’s it. I mean, this is how I think—maybe not right, but at least it’s better than watching nothing at all.

(While writing, I remembered a certain popular project I used to chase. Back then I thought it was amazing, but then I found out the on-chain execution was basically a joke. Forget it—I’m just lying here losing money.)