Suppose you want to buy a trending meme coin worth $1 million on Solana or Ethereum. Technically, you can. There is nothing stopping you from purchasing any Moonshot Token. All you have to do is complete your purchase, for example on Uniswap or Raydium, and there you go.
If you don’t really care how much you get, that’s okay. The only guarantee is when you click “buy” and invest a million dollars to get it 1000X Mimi Coin It is this: You will probably get one of the worst fill-ups in the world.
And there is no one to blame. Whether it’s on Solana or Ethereum. With the explosion of cryptocurrency trading, bot activity extracting every last drop of value from large block transactions, as noted above, is out of Solana’s control. Bot operators do this through a so-called sandwich attack, which is not a crime anyway. Just fast bots that take advantage of Solana’s ordering and transaction processing design.
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Sandwich’s attacks on Solana get out of control
Sandwich attacks reportedly got out of control on Solana to the point that one user took it to X, lamenting the consequences.
As of October 29, when the monitor posted, more than 864 SOLs had been extracted by 3,928 attackers. He added that more than 15,000 victims across Solana’s DeFi ecosystem were forced to receive bad fills.
The sandwich attacks get out of control on Solana
In the past 24 hours alone, a staggering 864 SOLs were mined by 3,928 attackers, impacting over 15,900 victims across Solana’s DeFi ecosystem.
More than 15,500 "Wide sandwich" The attacks were carried out and 864 Sol were extracted… pic.twitter.com/YgZ1f5ByiW
– Dave (@ItsDave_ADA) October 29, 2025
It is worth noting that The majority were “broad” sandwich attacks, where the bot runs front- and back-end transactions across multiple slots. Interestingly, in wide sandwich attacks, the validator keeps the victim’s transaction in the “leader”, allowing him to insert forward or backward operations into subsequent slots.
As it turns out, broad sandwich attacks are profitable for validators. Furthermore, they can be difficult to detect, to their advantage, since a victim’s transaction could be anywhere from 10 to 100 transactions, requiring complex tracking across slots.
It is the proliferation of these attacks that leads the observer to believe that although Solana is built for speed, it does not reward justice. Priority over fees provides bots with a way to exploit how Solana requests and processes transactions, potentially extracting billions each year.
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Jito crackdown, auditors banned
In October 2025, over 18,000 SOLs were mined from over 202,000 victims trying to swap via Solana DeFi protocols. There were over 51,000 attackers who cumulatively spent less than 340 Sol.
Just yesterday, on October 30, two bots collected over 46 Sol after spending less than 0.1 Sol running sandwich attacks.
(source: Confined)
Geto, one of the main companies providing construction services in Solana, has taken drastic measures.
Lately, they are Forbidden 15 additional auditors after overwhelming evidence showed they assisted in the sandwich attacks.
After analyzing more than 16 months of data, one analyst identified 23 auditors who bet primarily across the Jito and Marinade combinations.
(source: 0xGhostLogs,X)
He noted that over 6% of their commander slots contain primarily targeting wide sandwich attacks Retailers. Of the 23, six also received financial aid from the Solana Foundation.
Along with Gito, the Solana Foundation has fired more than 30 auditors found to be enabling MEV in 2024.
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Sandwich attacks Solana and Gito attacks
- Sandwich attack bots exploit transaction demand on Solana
- It targeted Solana DeFi protocols
- More than $3.2 million was mined from SOL in October
- Jito is cracking down on rogue auditors
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