Yesterday, a transaction directly cut in line on Uniswap. The gas was only 0.01 gwei higher than mine, yet it forced me to eat up the full slippage. Honestly, when it comes to this kind of “cutting in line” on-chain, on the surface it looks like competitive ordering, but in reality it affects the entire liquidity allocation—right after you set your limit order, right behind you, MEV bots clamp it at the slippage limit and intercept it. Recently, I’ve been seeing a lot of people discussing staking unlocks and token unlock calendars; they say they’re afraid of sell pressure, but I think the more critical part is how the orders after these unlocks actually get executed: if everything is snatched early by order sorters or bots, then the liquidity that unlocks can’t enter the market fairly, which becomes a real problem. Lately, I’ve been trying some private transactions and route pre-signing methods—at least so that slippage protection can genuinely work. Anyway, on-chain order isn’t something that can be solved by gas price alone; it’s pretty complicated.