After getting wrecked by MEV bots, I started looking at crypto differently. 🔥
At first, I thought bad entries and slippage were just part of trading.
Then I realized something uncomfortable:
Sometimes you're not trading against the market.
You're trading against infrastructure.
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Every large order.
Every visible transaction.
Every public move.
Becomes information for someone else.
And in crypto, information gets monetized fast.
I've watched trades get front-run.
I've watched entries become worse before execution.
I've watched opportunities disappear between clicking "confirm" and getting filled.
That's when I started paying more attention to privacy and execution quality.
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What surprised me was how little discussion there is around execution itself.
Everyone talks about narratives.
Everyone talks about tokens.
Very few people talk about how orders actually reach the market.
Yet that's where a lot of hidden costs live.
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That's one reason I started paying attention to projects like @GeniusOfficial and Railgun.
Not because they're chasing the latest narrative.
But because they're focused on something traders eventually learn the hard way:
Execution matters.
Privacy matters.
And in an increasingly competitive market, protecting your order flow may become just as important as finding the trade itself.
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The longer I'm in crypto, the more I think alpha isn't only about knowing what to buy.
It's also about how you execute once you've decided.