Really got played. These two years of trading career have been a complete joke—buying everything and losing on everything, selling and seeing everything rise. Jumping on those projects claiming to be 100x, only to have the project team vanish before I could even show off. At that time, I really wanted to join Meituan, but later I set my sights on XPL, planning to go all in and take a shot. Although my account looks a bit painful, holding these coins still makes me feel there’s a chance to turn things around.

You guys who are smoothly operating on-chain might not realize how tough it is for people like us who are long-term targeted by sniper bots. In the past, swapping tokens on DEX with a slightly larger slippage would immediately get sniped by various scripting arbitrage bots, slicing through the middle. The already not-so-rich principal had to pay taxes to those profiting from the spread. The most despairing part is that sense of powerlessness—trading isn’t about skill, it’s purely about speed and luck.

Then, when XPL integrated CoWSwap, it really moved me to tears. This MEV protection mechanism is basically a shield for our orders. Through batch auctions, those annoying snipers simply can’t get in. Trading becomes smooth, no longer a gamble on luck, but a real transaction. Watching my orders execute steadily without being disturbed feels incredibly comfortable.

And about account abstraction (EIP-4337), even I, an old-timer, have to admit it’s really impressive. Using wallets used to be a nightmare—private keys, seed phrases, gas fees, all kinds of issues. Now, this account abstraction solution makes interactions much smoother, and the whole experience is completely different.