Automated trading bots extracted about $1.32 million by exploiting a price gap in Ant Blockchain (ANB). The dislocation appeared across two Meteora liquidity pools, according to on-chain trackers and Solana market watchers.
The largest single trade converted about $0.227 in USD Coin (USDC) into $696,000, spending only 2.32 SOL in priority fees. Multiple wallets repeated the play until the price gap closed.
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.
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.