Solana Trading Bot Turns 20 cents Into $1.32 Million on Ant Blockchain

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. 13 hours ago, multiple wallets ran arbitrage trades on $ANBThey turned less than $1 into $60K$696K+ in a single trade. Multiple times.$ANB went from ~$67M MC down to ~$30M MC.How it worked:$ANB had two pools on Meteora at the same time:1. A Meteora DAMM v2 pool where 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 Solanas 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. ANBs market cap fell 99% during the run and has continued todecline. Ant.FUN (ANB) Price Performance. Source: CoinMarketCap Ant.FUN, the project behind the token, has not addressed the event publicly.