It's unbearably stuffy outside today, and the coffee cools down after a while, on-chain swaps are even colder... Recently, the group has been sharing screenshots of stablecoin regulation, reserve audits, and various "de-pegging" warnings. When emotions run high, everyone loves to chase after exchange points and swaps.

Speaking of sandwiches and arbitrage: you think you're seeing an "opportunity," but often it's just the transaction fee in someone else's eyes. The moment you click, the route, slippage, and gas are all openly displayed—robots don't compete with you for those. Especially when the market is volatile and rumors are flying, liquidity is thinner, and sandwich attacks become like picking up money.

I'm currently quite rigid: I prefer to make fewer trades, split orders, set slippage limits, and if necessary, use limit orders or aggregators. Before on-chain transactions, I check the mempool activity (not checking is fine, but don't expect "fast fingers" to win). Anyway, don't treat being sandwiched as just "market volatility"; that's you working for others.