The Solana network is no longer suffering from the threat of "sandwich attacks" as it did before, after a significant decline in this type of attack recently, with daily losses dropping to very limited levels.
Data indicates that most of these attacks are now targeting very small transactions worth less than one dollar, meaning their impact on users has become almost negligible.
This decline is primarily due to a decrease in speculative trading activity, along with an improvement in the nature of activity on decentralized trading platforms, which has become more organized and less random.
MEV (miner/extractor value) attackers have clearly reduced their activity, as the operational costs of their bots over the past month did not exceed about 5 SOL, reflecting a decline in the economic viability of these attacks.
In contrast, the network has evolved to employ transaction ordering techniques more efficiently rather than exploiting them, with the “Jito” platform playing a pivotal role in this transformation by improving transaction execution mechanisms and reducing opportunities for manipulation.
The majority of transaction ordering value has become a result of legitimate competition for execution speed, rather than harmful practices.
Other technical improvements, such as directing transactions specifically and using reliable execution environments, have contributed to making attack strategies more difficult.
Additionally, the network has enhanced its security measures and spam prevention, with updated operational rules for validators.
Despite the continued importance of transaction ordering within the network, Solana is moving towards more balanced and fair models, such as the “Transaction Ordering Value” system, which aims to reduce manipulation while maintaining efficient use of space within blocks.
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