In the morning on the subway, I was checking on-chain records, and the more I looked, the more I felt that "cutting in line" is not just about big players squeezing a few cents from you. MEV/ordering, in simple terms, is about who goes first and who goes later, decided by others. You might think that just by clicking to swap, you're lining up, but in reality, someone can push ahead of you to boost the price, then sandwich you in the middle to eat the slippage; what's even more frustrating is that in the end, you'll blame yourself for being slow or not adjusting the parameters properly.

Recently, there's been a surge of modular and DeFi layer narratives, developers are chatting excitedly, while ordinary users are completely confused. In fact, if the underlying ordering process isn't transparent, changing a few layers of packaging still results in that same "invisible queue." I've become more conservative with cross-chain swaps and token exchanges—preferring to be slower and make fewer transactions, at least to avoid gambling on luck during those critical seconds when you're most vulnerable... Anyway, falling into the water once is enough to remember for a long time.