Over the past two days, I’ve seen a bunch of people watching large on-chain transfers and exchange hot/cold wallets—whenever there’s the slightest movement, they start shouting “smart money is coming/going”… What I care about more, though, is the same intent ending up being whoever gets put first in line in the end. MEV—this kind of “cutting in line”—to put it plainly, isn’t only about siphoning profits from arbitrage traders. A lot of the time, regular people place a swap, slide a little in a thin pool’s slippage, then they get squeezed in the meantime, and the execution price ends up looking really ugly. The sense of fairness drops noticeably, basically straight away.

Now I’m trying not to let myself place trades impulsively: when I feel myself getting carried away emotionally, I close the trading interface first and come back after 10 minutes. Also, I set slippage more conservatively—I’d rather not trade than be the target of some “good cut-in-line.” Anyway, the market is there every day. What I fear most is being ground into the ground by my own fast hands and FOMO. That’s it for now.