Last night, I swapped a few small coins on-chain and almost got “cut in line” and taught a lesson... The moment I placed the order, the slippage suddenly increased. It wasn’t that I was the one with shaky hands—more like someone jumped ahead and blocked the way. To put it simply, with MEV, the ones affected aren’t the people who write scripts, but ordinary trades/transactions like mine that just happen to pass through—paying a bit more, getting a bit less—and still thinking it was the market suddenly changing its face. The fear wasn’t even that I lost so much I couldn’t sleep, but more like that feeling of “fairness only exists in my imagination.”

Lately, the group chat has been talking nonstop about stablecoin regulation, reserve audits, and all kinds of de-pegging rumors—emotions come in waves. I trust a principle more now: when the wind is strong, land softly—don’t force it. For on-chain ordering in the short term, don’t expect it to suddenly become kind; what you can do is just test in batches and with small amounts. Keep the slippage open wider, and if something still feels off, withdraw... That’s it for now.