Solana bots net $1.32M exploiting Ant.FUN pool gap
Arbitrage bots on Solana captured about $1.32 million by exploiting a 99% price gap between two Meteora ANB pools after an 8 billion-token sell.
Arbitrage bots on Solana extracted about $1.32 million by exploiting a price gap between two Meteora liquidity pools for Ant.FUN (ANB). The gap opened after a sell of roughly 8 billion ANB hit a Meteora Dynamic Automated Market Maker (DAMM v2) pool and produced about a 99% price impact while a parallel Meteora Dynamic Liquidity Market Maker (DLMM) pool continued to trade at the prior price. Bots completed the trades in two consecutive blocks.
The bots bought ANB in the cheaper DAMM pool and resold it in the pricier DLMM pool within single, atomic transactions that combined all legs of the round trip. Atomic execution allowed the traders to capture the price difference inside one block.
On-chain data and Solana observers reported multiple wallets repeated the strategy until the gap closed. One large transaction converted about 0.227 USDC into $696,000, paying 2.32 SOL in priority fees. Other reported outcomes included a wallet converting $0.10 into $196,000 and another converting $0.036 into $86,714. MEV tracking data placed total profits across the two blocks at roughly $1.32 million.
Routing strategies varied. Some bots routed directly from USDC to ANB and back to USDC. Others routed through ANX before reaching ANB to capture the spread. Fast block confirmations on Solana and bundle services such as Jito helped bots secure block inclusion and complete the round trips before other participants could react.
Market measures showed ANB’s market capitalization fell about 99% during the run and continued to decline afterward. The project behind the token, Ant.FUN, has not issued a public comment.
A message posted on Solana Floor read: “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 analyst Kakashi estimated the initial sell at roughly 8 billion tokens.
On-chain trackers recorded that multiple wallets executed the arbitrage until prices and liquidity realigned and the opportunity closed.
