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Sandwich bots extracted about $29.7 million before costs from Solana trades over an 11-month period, according to blockchain data provider Bitquery. It found 96% of detected attacks on memecoin platform Pump.fun's launch curve and its PumpSwap exchange.<\/p>\n

The investigation<\/a>, covering successful swaps, counted 6,850,144 attacks by 2,545 bot wallets affecting 2,154,994 distinct wallets between October 30, 2025, and October 7, 2026. Those addresses do not represent a count of individual people: other bots' trades accounted for 39% of the estimated gross take.<\/p>\n

A sandwich places a bot's purchase and sale around another trader's swap. The first purchase raises the pool price; the intervening buyer receives fewer tokens, and the bot sells into the higher price. The cost reaches the trader through execution, even when the swap completes successfully.<\/p>\n\n

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A tiny cluster of Solana bots unlocked a 3x trading advantage by routing through one proprietary protocol<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/i>\n <\/span>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n

Wide slippage marked greater exposure<\/h2>\n

Among trades sent by swap router Jupiter through Pump.fun's launch curve or PumpSwap, trades allowing 20%\u201350% slippage were sandwiched 14 times as often as those allowing under 3%, Bitquery found.<\/p>\n

Slippage tolerance sets how far execution can depart from a quote. Jupiter's documentation describes a minimum acceptable output<\/a> after applying that tolerance. A price move beyond the limit can cause a swap to fail; a wider limit permits a worse fill. That creates a tradeoff between completing a volatile trade and limiting the price concession accepted along the way.<\/p>\n

The observed attack rates did not rise uniformly with every wider setting. Trades below 0.5% tolerance were hit more often than those at 1%\u20133%, while the 50%-or-more band was hit less often than the 20%\u201350% band.<\/p>\n

\"Bitquery<\/a><\/p>\n

The slippage comparison is observational and covers Jupiter routes through Pump.fun's launch curve or PumpSwap. Jupiter carried only a small share of all victim trades in the investigation.<\/p>\n\n

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Solana\u2019s 300ms speed boost to outrun trading bots might come with a hidden cost<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/i>\n <\/span>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n

The $29.7 million estimate values SOL at the minute of each attack and does not measure net profit. In Bitquery's separate 63-attack fee sample, bots retained 68% of aggregate gross proceeds, and 18 attacks lost money after costs. That sample does not establish net earnings for the full period. The report also identifies inconsistent Pump.fun sale-fee recording that affects its gross estimate by about 3%.<\/p>\n

Bitquery used repeated trading patterns to identify bots, excluded round trips beginning in a token's first 10 slots, and reports gaps in exchange and block coverage. Chain records cannot prove a bot saw an order beforehand, and some qualifying wallets may be fast traders.<\/p>\n\n

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Solana DEX volume spike hides circular trades, and automated bots are blamed<\/h3>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/i>\n <\/span>\n <\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n

Slippage limits address the price a trader will accept. A separate research preprint submitted September 23, 2026<\/a> examined protected order flow, meaning transactions intended to be shielded from front-running, across six blockchains. Its authors found sandwich patterns extending across trades and blocks and concluded these protections can offer weaker guarantees than users expect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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