According to Anza's lead economist Max Resnick, the rate of sandwich attacks on the Solana network has significantly decreased compared to last year. This decline is attributed not to measures like blacklisting malicious validators but rather improvements in Solana's underlying code. Previously, in 2024, transactions on Solana were more widely disseminated, allowing toxic validators to exploit numerous opportunities for frontrunning. However, as transaction targeting has enhanced, fewer validators access each transaction, reducing the opportunities for sandwiching. Data from Ghost, a sandwich attack tracker, indicates that sandwichers earned less in terms of profits during March and April of this year compared to the same months last year, even though the chain's revenue remained stable. Marinade, a staking pool provider, has taken steps to penalize sandwich attackers, further supporting the decline in this activity.

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