Bitquery: faster Solana slots fail to curb memecoin snipers on Pump.fun

• —53% of new coins in the earlier sample saw an outside buy within ~1.3 seconds, versus 52% later
• —First-block buying fell from 42% to 32%, but the first block shrank from 0.42 to 0.27 seconds
• —Sandwich detections rose to 33 per 10,000 swaps from 21 in late August to mid-September
• —The final cut to a 200ms slot target on Oct. 9 fell outside the study's measured window