According to @deanmlittle, adversaries are spamming roughly 100k assembly-optimized transaction payloads to MEV other users to the back of the queue, signaling elevated mempool contention and priority fee pressure for on-chain traders; Source: https://twitter.com/deanmlittle/status/1957296880536502457 Such heavy orderflow competition increases the odds of failed transactions, slippage on DEX swaps, and unfavorable execution from front-running and sandwich attacks documented in peer-reviewed research; Source: https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.05234 Traders can mitigate by routing through private or MEV-protected relays and batch-auction protocols to internalize MEV and reduce exposure to mempool sniping; Sources: https://docs.flashbots.net/flashbots-protect/overview and https://docs.cow.fi/ When bot activity spikes, monitor mempool congestion and inclusion latency, and raise tips/priority fees per your chain’s fee market design to maintain execution quality; Source: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/gas/