Morning Edition · Monday, August 3, 2026Published at 1:28 AM EDT · New York
A 12-Address Cluster Shows How Proprietary Routing Skews Solana Trading Outcomes
CryptoSlate finds a small group of bots winning trades 62% of the time versus 21% for others by routing through one protocol, evidence that on-chain advantage is now a microstructure design.
A cluster of roughly a dozen Solana addresses achieved favorable trade outcomes about 62.3 percent of the time, against 21.01 percent for the broader population, by routing orders through one proprietary protocol, according to CryptoSlate's…
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