Honestly, the whole on-chain “cutting in line” thing (MEV, front-running/sniping) first hurts not the big players, but ordinary people: you think you’ve traded by pressing a button, but then someone else sees it first, reorders everything, and the slippage turns straight into a “buy order fee.” What’s even more infuriating is that many people still think it’s because their hand speed is too slow… but actually, it’s just the way the rules are written.

These days I basically use L2 instead of the mainnet—so it’s not just saving on fees; in many cases, it also lowers the chances of getting sniped. And don’t put blind faith in the labels from on-chain data tools either—lately, haven’t people been complaining about lag, and even about being misled? Once you get worked up by the words “smart money,” in the end it often just becomes the “exit liquidity” of smart money. Anyway, I’d rather wait a few more seconds, and miss a single line of trade, than work for those cutting-in-line types.