Solana (SOL) has, by design, one of the most expensive networks to maintain, often requiring validators to look for Foundation’s subsidies or Maximum Extractable Value (MEV) techniques. This is the case with DeezNode, a Solana validator and RPC cluster provider who profited over $13 million in a single month from sandwich attacks against other SOL users – a report shows.
According to a post by vitorpy, founder of DarkLake, DeezNode’s sandwich bot executed 1.55 million transactions in December 2024. The exploitative spree resulted in 65,800 SOL profit for the attacker, worth over $13 million by vitorpy’s posting time.
Annualized, this would result in approximately 801,540 of SOL stolen from users, worth around $163.4 million.
In particular, this phenomenon results of what was promoted as a solution for the MEV-abuse problem, closing Jito’s public mempool. However, as reported, the issue increased as it pushed extraction to private networks from providers like Deez
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