Lately, I’ve been fixating on MEV a bit too much. Put simply, when it comes to on-chain “queue jumping,” the first thing it harms isn’t who loses a few bucks—it’s that you think that after you hit swap, you’ll get filled at the price you see, only to be pushed to the back where slippage goes through the roof, or you get hit with a quick sniper trade that “cuts you in line.” Small traders think it’s just bad luck, but really it’s the ordering rules charging everyone a fee. What’s even more annoying is that once a cross-chain bridge gets exploited, everyone instantly turns into “wait for confirmation” mode: the oracle reports some wildly unrealistic price, and the whole crowd collectively pauses. On the surface it’s caution, but underneath it’s still fear—fear that someone else will move first and dump the risk onto you. The more I look at “on-chain fairness,” the more it feels like this: if you’re not in the queue, you’re outside it. If I had to keep only one habit, it would be this: before I make a move, I always ask myself one sentence—“How could this order be executed in the worst possible way?”