What is MEV and How to Secure Your Solana Transactions
Solana’s design is a game changer, but MEV still occurs through arbitrage, liquidations, and pinch-hit.

Solana’s design is a game changer, but MEV still occurs through arbitrage, liquidations, and pinch-hit.
Solana’s MEV landscape is evolving rapidly and is far from reaching a stable competitive equilibrium.
Solana is a high-performance blockchain platform that achieves high throughput and low latency through a unique consensus mechanism and account model.
The economics of Ethereum and Solana were compared through data analysis, revealing Ethereum's advantages in fees, value accumulation, and on-chain profitability, while pointing out that Solana has not yet achieved on-chain profitability and relies on inflation and token incentives.
The SlowMist security team has noticed that the number of users who have been harmed by this type of scam has increased recently. Therefore, this article will explain the scam routine and analyze the scammers' fund transfer patterns to help users avoid falling into this type of scam.
Recently, the Solana Foundation removed several validators from its delegation program due to their involvement in "sandwich attacks." More than 30 validators, many of whom are Russian operators, were removed. Since Solana does not have a native memory pool, these validators were found to have added private memory pools to exploit profits.
If we follow the previous example of destroying MGP to obtain EGP IDO quota, there will be a strategy with relatively high profit and loss.
This article looks at the mechanics of CEX/DEX arbitrage trading, focusing on the AMM aspects of execution, aiming to show the relationship between block time, block base fee, and the participants involved in these trades.
Solana doesn’t have to go the Proposer-Builder Separation (PBS) route chosen by Ethereum, but it will need to take a comprehensive approach to stabilize its fee market in the long term.
L2 Sequencer, as the core component of the Ethereum Layer 2 solution, plays a key role.