Solana MEV bot King drained of $786K in WSOL and SOL tokens.
Security & Exploits ·
A Solana MEV bot identified as King experienced a significant token drain. The compromise resulted in the loss of approximately $786K in assets, comprising 4.26K WSOL and 191 SOL tokens, along with stablecoins. The incident appears to stem from wallet compromise.
MEV bots on Solana are designed to extract value from transaction ordering and mempool dynamics. The King bot's vulnerability to wallet compromise highlights ongoing security risks for automated trading systems on the network, even those operating at scale. Such incidents typically occur through either private key exposure or exploitation of permissioning mechanisms.
The exact vector of compromise—whether phishing, code vulnerability, or infrastructure misconfiguration—has not been specified in available reporting. Recovery prospects and whether the drained tokens remain traceable on-chain remain unclear at this time.