Recently, I've seen a bunch of people talking about block builders and bundles, saying that if retail investors don't understand, they'll get "eaten"… For someone like me who immediately sneezes at high gas fees, the conclusion is actually pretty simple: just knowing that "your transaction might not be included in the block in the order you want" is enough, especially for swaps, front-running mints, liquidations, which might be bundled together and inserted as a bunch, or even if you think you're placing a single order, you're actually just a side dish in someone else's package.

Further down, things like builder lists and complex strategies, honestly, don't do much for small positions like mine. What really matters is: don't chase congested periods, try to use L2 as much as possible, batch transactions when you can, and set slippage limits that aren't too crazy. After seeing the inflation + studio + token price spiral in blockchain games, it all feels similar: the mechanism is complicated, but in the end, it's about who can do better "packaging" at the execution level. Anyway, I just consider myself always waiting in someone else's assembly line… That's all for now.