People are talking less about MEV lately, but in fact this thing is related to every ordinary user. You place a limit order—there were originally other orders ahead of you in line—but then sandwich/clipper bots race ahead, and the price slips by a few basis points. It doesn’t look like much, but when accumulated, it’s like market makers are paying their dues.

Put simply, whoever controls the right to be first in the queue can decide who makes money first. Nowadays, when new L1/L2s hand out incentives and put on a show to attract TVL, old users are digging while shouting “mine the token and sell it for profit.” But underneath, it’s also a sorting strategy at work: if you can’t get the earlier blocks, what you end up mining is what’s left over for others to eat.

Anyway, I think that in the future, when choosing a protocol, we should treat “sorting fairness” as a parameter—just like looking at collateralization ratios. That’s it for now.