To be honest, the current state

To be honest, the current state of DeFi is a paradise for arbitrage bots. I set my slippage to 1% yesterday and still got front-run on a simple swap. It feels like the mempool is completely opaque to retail users. I was reading a technical breakdown of the data architecture of scalable DEXs specifically regarding MEV protection: https://coinjournal.net/news/the-data-architecture-of-scalable-dexs-solving-for-liquidity-latency-and-mev-protection/ and it highlights that the issue is structural. Unless the sequencers change how they order transactions to reduce latency, we are just paying a hidden tax on every trade. It’s annoying that we have to use private RPC endpoints just to get a fair price execution.