Jupiter’s Ultra trading service generated far fewer sandwich attacks than some competing Solana dApps, as shown by a new three-year academic study.

This points to Jupiter’s pursuit of safer trade execution. But it comes as JUP fell more than 9% from its latest high, following a sharp price rally that it witnessed.

Jupiter Ultra performs better than rival platforms

The study looked at sandwich attacks on six blockchains. Researchers pointed out 28 million cases on the Solana network involving transactions that users expected protection.

A sandwich attack begins when a bot spots an incoming trade. What it then does is buy the asset first, causing the price to go higher before the original transaction goes through. It then proceeds…