According to @ItsDave_ADA, a sandwich bot on Solana front-ran a ~196.46 SOL to AOL swap on Raydium and then back-ran it, extracting 22.1858 SOL profit within a single block in under a second, with ~118 SOL used and ~140.18 SOL returned, source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Jan 8, 2026. He reports the bot bought 2,039,865 AOL before the victim’s trade and immediately sold the same amount for 140.0003 SOL after the victim executed at a worse rate, source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Jan 8, 2026. For traders, this example indicates active MEV on Solana DEX order flow and shows that large market swaps on Raydium can face slippage and adverse price impact from front-running, source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Jan 8, 2026. He also notes the UI label showed PEPSI incorrectly and says the details were validated via on-chain explorers, source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Jan 8, 2026.

According to @ItsDave_ADA, in the past 24 hours 37 attackers on Solana executed sandwich attacks against 1,518 victims, extracting an estimated 997 SOL, about $8,000, source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Oct 19, 2025. The source reports these attacks occur every few minutes, quietly draining value from ordinary users and turning trading into being traded against by bots, source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Oct 19, 2025. Over the past 30 days, 134 attackers extracted $189,400 from Solana users via sandwich attacks, source: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Oct 19, 2025. Based on these figures, the last 24 hours exceed the 30-day daily average of about $6,300, with losses averaging roughly 0.66 SOL per victim over the past day, highlighting execution risk for SOL traders on DEXs, calculation based on source figures: @ItsDave_ADA on X, Oct 19, 2025.

According to @ItsDave_ADA, over the last 60 days one of Solana’s largest validators, Helius, validated 412,325 blocks, and 2,960 of those blocks (0.72%) contained at least one sandwich attack, underscoring how widespread MEV has become on Solana; source: @ItsDave_ADA (X, Oct 4, 2025). Some validators recorded a sandwich-attack rate as high as 27.34% of blocks produced over the same period, highlighting significant exposure variability across validators; source: @ItsDave_ADA (X, Oct 4, 2025). The author characterizes this as technical users extracting value from non-technical users, a direct MEV concern for on-chain traders and liquidity takers on Solana DeFi; source: @ItsDave_ADA (X, Oct 4, 2025).