Recently, when I look at on-chain trading, the most annoying thing isn’t that someone is shouting “fairness” again—it’s that you clearly place an order at the floor price, yet you get cut in line by someone else and the trade’s slippage gets swallowed in one go… To put it plainly, when it comes to MEV/ordering, it’s that kind of small-ticket, manual “click-click-click” users who get hurt the most—especially the NFT deal-snatchers. A half-second delay and they go from being the buyer to essentially being someone else’s backstage transport. Big players, meanwhile, have tools and channels; competing with them on speed is just asking to be humiliated.

What’s even funnier is that the more hype the modular and DA layer narrative gets, the more developers look like they’re saying “the future is already here,” while users are still asking: So if I buy a JPEG, why do I still have to be front-run? I’m not really chasing explanations anymore. If I can avoid moving around, I’ll avoid it—hang my price more conservatively, don’t go all-in. If I get a bargain, great; if I don’t, then oh well.