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I was just watching the mempool for a while, feeling like rush hour on the subway: I clearly clicked send on my swap, but in the queue, someone cut in line, and miners (oh, now they call them block proposers) kept picking and choosing. During congestion, slippage feels like a sudden off-rhyme in my rap—originally wanting a clean price, but ending up stuck in the middle, and the transaction completes in a flash with only "settling."
What's more annoying is thinking you're negotiating with an AMM, but actually you're bargaining with a bunch of seat grabbers: paying a higher gas fee might get you

This wave of excitement—honestly—boils down to storytelling pushing people along. I’m often being tugged along for a couple of steps too... But now I feel more like someone using small scissors to trim grass, rather than someone charging ahead with a power drill. Before entering, write down your stop-loss; otherwise, once slippage gets big, it’s like a rhyme going off-beat, and the more you add to your position, the more it feels like you’re just finding rhetoric for the losses. After that recent mainstream public chain upgrade/maintenance—before and after—everyone in the group has been guessi

I just got itchy again and wanted to chase the rally, almost clicking the mouse to buy more, then suddenly paused and asked myself: Am I seeing new information, or am I being pushed by that kind of "everyone's winning, I have to jump on too" emotion to add to my position... Honestly, it's often the latter, especially when liquidity in the pool is thin, and slippage hits like a slap in the face, as if rhyming.
Recently, the practice of pledging and sharing security for "compound yields" has been criticized as a clone, and I can understand: you think you're stacking yields, but you might actuall