RE: My 207th Sunday Weekly Hive Goals and Progress Update: The Hive-Engine Hack, Its Collateral Damage, and the Increasing Difficulty of Investing Within the Hive Blockchain Ecosystem - Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Sunday, May 17, 2026

Avoiding fees..not much can be done about that. But slippage if you go in slow (or trade small amounts per transaction) It's in general less strain on the wallet. I mostly go into pools with APR 15% or higher and stay in the pools long enough to recoup the fee as the liquidity provider(and rewards of course). Some folks don't really care and set slippage high just to do the trades faster. I do the slow way myself for the most part. On hive-engine the highest I set it is 1%, but usually 0.5%(for swaps). In terms of swapping sometimes it's better to just buy the tokens on the market-can even be profitable with arbitrage sometimes(so can swapping in the pools ). -My 2 cents !BBH !PIXY Fees and slippage are one of the reasons I have a daily bonus in the pools so folks can more easily recoup costs of getting into the pools if they stick around. That's the idea anyway.