Solana has no mempool, so no MEV." It's the most-repeated myth in… — Benefactor's Channel

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🥪 "Solana has no mempool, so no MEV." It's the most-repeated myth in crypto — and it's quietly costing traders. Here's what they leave out.

Yes, Solana removed the *public* mempool. But it didn't remove MEV — it just
changed the door.

1️⃣ Enter Jito. Instead of a public waiting room, Solana runs an off-chain auction (Jito's block engine) where searchers submit "bundles" and tip validators to land them in a favorable position. Pay more, get ordered first.

2️⃣ The bundle is the new sandwich. A searcher wraps your swap in a bundle — buy in front of you, let you fill worse, sell right after — and tips its way to the front. Same attack, new mechanism.

3️⃣ Your flow is visible to those who pay. Transactions are forwarded straight to the current block leader, so a searcher (or a validator taking the tip) sees it coming and acts. "No mempool" ≠ "no one sees your trade."

4️⃣ Even Jito admitted the problem. In 2024 it *disabled its own public mempool* because it was being used for sandwich attacks — and the sandwiches simply migrated to direct-to-leader and private order-flow routes. The extraction never stopped; tens of millions have been pulled from Solana traders.

The lesson: removing the mempool was never the bar. As long as someone can *pay to cut the line*, your trade is a target. Ethereum auctions ordering with
gas. Solana auctions it with tips. Different plumbing — same result: you fill worse so a bot can profit.

⚡️ GalaSwap is the chain where neither attack exists.

No public mempool for bots to watch — *and* no ordering auction to bid your way to the front. Execution is deterministic and validator-ordered:
✅ No searcher can see your pending swap and jump in front of it.
✅ No one can *pay* to be ordered ahead of you — gas, tips, bundles, none of it applies.
✅ The price you see is the price you get.

That's the real bar: not "no mempool," but "no way to buy priority over your trade." GalaSwap clears it by design — retail gets the same fair fill as the
whale, every time.

Stop paying the invisible tax. 🟡
👉 Trade fair. Trade on GalaSwap.
https://swap.gala.com/explore