That’s why these arb bots get very little allocation based on their volume. If they did 500,000,000 in volume they still would get ‘‘only’’ 6,784 JUP based on the $10M+ tier. There’s only a hand full of these ultra-high volume users, so nothing of concern.
Meow wrote about this topic last year:
Many people have critiqued that power users will get a disproportionately large amount of the airdrop. However, this difference is actually much smaller compared to the difference in volume, which is closer to 1000x or even as large as 240,000x . So the extremes have actually been very much nerfed, while still making it meaningful per tier. It also encourages usage instead of farming via multiple wallets.
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One interesting observation was that stable/xSOL-SOL/bot volume was far higher at the highest levels. For example, the 2 wallets that did >500M in volume were purely arb traffic. While our share of user volume has greatly increased over time, arb bots consisted of a fairly large volume, especially early on in the cycle.
To be clear, there are many kinds of bots, and many of them play an important part in the liquidity ecosystem , so this is an observation to open up the conversation about whether to differentiate between these volumes.
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