Solana MEV Bot Turns 20 Cents Into $1.32M-Unbelievable Yet True

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In the grand tradition of people who think algorithms are magic wands, automated trading bots scraped about $1.32 million from a price gap in Ant Blockchain (ANB). The dislocation stretched across two Meteora liquidity pools, according to on-chain trackers and Solana watchers who perhaps need more coffee than is healthy.

The largest single trade converted about $0.227 in USD Coin (USDC) into $696,000, spending only 2.32 SOL in priority fees. It was the sort of efficiency that would make a mime tell you to leave the stage-one quick move, and the price gap kept being prodded like a curious cat.

Solana MEV Bots Extract $1.32 Million From ANB Arbitrage

A large ANB sell of roughly 8 billion tokens hit a Meteora Dynamic Automated Market Maker (DAMM v2) pool. That swap caused a 99% price impact, according to Solana analyst Kakashi.

13 hours ago, multiple wallets ran arbitrage trades on $ANB

They turned less than $1 into $60K-$696K+ in a single trade. Multiple times.$ANB went from ~$67M MC down to ~$30M MC.

How it worked:$ANB had two pools on Meteora at the same time:

1. A Meteora DAMM v2 pool where…

– Kakashi (@kkashi_yt) May 2, 2026

The same token kept trading at its prior price inside a parallel Meteora Dynamic Liquidity Market Maker (DLMM) pool.

That mismatch handed bots a profitable arbitrage window. Bots could buy ANB in the cheap pool and resell it in the expensive one within a single atomic transaction.

Routing varied between two paths. Some bots cycled USDC into ANB and back into USDC. Others passed through the ANX token before reaching ANB.

Pennies-to-Fortunes Trades on Solana

Solana’s fast blocks and Jito bundle infrastructure helped Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) bots clear the round trips before the gap closed.

One wallet flipped $0.1 into $196,000. Another turned $0.036 into $86,714, according to Kakashi.

“A suspected arb bot made $696K at the cost of just 2.32 $SOL, after a large $ANB swap caused 99% price impact and opened a major arbitrage,” Solana Floor indicated.

The total profit across two consecutive blocks reached about $1.32 million, per MEV tracking.

ANB’s market cap fell 99% during the run and has continued to decline.

Ant.FUN, the project behind the token, has not addressed the event publicly.

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2026-05-02 17:15