Bot front-runs → you buy at higher price → bot sells
You lose 1-5% per trade silently
✓ With Reaper MEV shield:
TX routed via Jito private bundle
Invisible to bots → clean execution
Cost: $0 extra — included in 0.7% fee
Every Solana trader loses money to MEV attacks without knowing it. Sandwich bots front-run your swaps, extracting value from every trade. MEV bots on Solana extract significant sums monthly from regular traders.
What Is MEV on Solana?
MEV stands for Maximal Extractable Value — the profit that bots and validators can extract by reordering, inserting, or censoring transactions within a block. On Solana, where blocks are produced every 400 milliseconds, MEV attacks happen faster than on any other blockchain.
The most common attack is the sandwich attack: a bot detects your pending swap, places a buy order before yours (front-run), and a sell order after yours (back-run). Your trade executes at a worse price, and the bot pockets the difference.
How Do MEV Bots Attack Your Trades?
Sandwich attacks target large swaps on AMM DEXes. The bot monitors pending transactions, identifies profitable swaps, and wraps your transaction between two of its own.
Front-running: the bot detects a large buy order and buys first, driving the price up before your order executes.
Back-running captures arbitrage after your trade moves the price across DEXes.
What Is MEV Protection?
MEV protection routes your transactions through private channels that prevent bots from seeing your orders before they execute. Instead of broadcasting your swap to the entire network, a protected transaction goes directly to a validator through an encrypted route.
ReaperSniper includes built-in MEV protection on every trade using Jito bundles with private transaction routing. No extra settings required — protection is active by default.
With vs Without Protection
Without MEV protection, every swap is exposed to sandwich attacks with 1-5% average slippage loss. With Reaper's MEV protection, transactions are privately routed with near-zero slippage loss — all included in the 0.7% trading fee.
How to Check If You Were Sandwiched
Check your transaction on Solscan: find your swap hash, look at transactions in the same block immediately before and after yours. If the same wallet bought before your buy and sold after — you were sandwiched.
Protect Every Trade
MEV is not going away. ReaperSniper routes every transaction through Jito private bundles at no extra cost. Combined with the 0.7% fee, AI-powered token scoring, and sub-second execution across 20+ DEXes — your trades are both fast and protected.