A three-year academic study found Jupiter's Ultra trading service suffered far fewer sandwich attacks than rival Solana platforms, yet JUP still fell 9.49% to around $0.337. The token's slide follows a rapid run from $0.22 to nearly $0.372, and traders are now watching whether support near $0.32 holds.
JUP dropped more than 9% from its latest high even as new research points to safer trade execution on its Ultra service. The token's decline came after a sharp price rally, showing that a favorable security finding was not enough to hold back profit-taking.
Jupiter Ultra performs better than rival platforms
The study examined sandwich attacks across six blockchains and found 28 million cases on the Solana network involving transactions users expected to be protected. A sandwich attack starts when a bot spots an incoming trade, buys the asset first to push the price higher, then sells immediately once the original trade goes through, leaving the trader with a worse price.
Jupiter Ultra users saw fewer of these attacks than users on other trading platforms. Researchers gave Jupiter an overall score of 0.7. Axiom scored 18.9, Photon 11.1, and BullX and GMGM both scored over 10. The figures do not mean Jupiter has eliminated sandwich attacks entirely. Instead, they show how a trading application's order handling can affect risk.
Jupiter attempts to front-run trades itself and auto-manages how much volatility a user will tolerate. Its system also checks different trading routes and tries to select the one likely to deliver the best final result.
JUP price retreats from $0.37
The positive security finding did not stop JUP from falling 9.49% to around $0.337 at the time of writing. Its decline followed a rapid advance from around $0.22 to nearly $0.372, an increase of roughly 69% that made some profit-taking unsurprising.
Traders are now watching the $0.32 level, where buyers stepped in during the latest session. If that fails, JUP may drop toward $0.30, followed by a stronger support area near $0.29. A rally above $0.35 would improve the short-term picture, but JUP would first need to overcome the recent $0.37-$0.38 peak.
Even with the daily losses, JUP holds comfortable space above its recent price averages. The broader rally is still on track for now, but the latest pullback shows it has entered a more complicated phase.
Source: AMBCrypto
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