Speaking of it, every time I’ve opened my browser lately—check-in, interactions, cross-chain transfers… seeing the sorter quietly orchestrating things in the background always gives me the feeling of standing in line at a market only to have someone cut in front of you. When you boil it down, MEV is basically an invisible cut-in lane on-chain. If you’re willing to pay a bit more Gas, block producers will prioritize wrapping your transaction. Those bots that can read the mempool, once they see your submitted order, casually “cut in line” with a transaction ahead of yours, and then slot one in after you as well—eating from both ends. For retail users, this isn’t just a slippage issue anymore; it’s a sense of fairness.

My personal habit is: before every DeFi composition, I break risk into a few simple rules. Which operations must use anti-MEV RPCs, which ones can tolerate slippage, and which ones should just wait on a slow chain for two or three blocks before canceling. Lately, hardware wallets have also been out of stock, and phishing links are especially rampant. In any case, when it comes to safety—just like sorting fairness—the earlier you figure out the rules, the more worry-free it is.