Metaplex Bot Free

Solana experienced another network downtime due to intense botting of a NFT mint. Solana has been working on a creative solution to deal with this botting issue called Quic, but Metaplex, the infrastructure protocol for Solana NFTs decided to implement a ""bot tax"" to help alleviate this issue. The summary is that bots will now have to pay a .01 SOL penalty for every transaction. Since this was implemented on April 29th, how many bot transactions and thus how much SOL has Metaplex captured? Display when these transactions occurred over time and if there were certain wallets that have been discovered to be guilty of botting the network.

Introduction:

In this bounty, we want to find the Bot tax that implemented by Metaplex on Bot mints.

The mint table of Solana blockchain is used and the '%Candy Machine Botting is taxed at%' massage is adopted to capture the bot mints.

The addresses of Metaplex mint are cndy3Z4yapfJBmL3ShUp5exZKqR3z33thTzeNMm2gRZ and cndyAnrLdpjq1Ssp1z8xxDsB8dxe7u4HL5Nxi2K5WXZ

Daily number of bots mints and Also the number of bots and captured fee by Metaplex are shown in the two figures.

According to the figures, 4295 bots are minted on May 6 and the Metaplex captured near 577 Sol by their transactions.

The maximum amount of fee captured by Metaplex happened on May 8 with 736.9 Sol.

In the second part, the top bots by their number of mints are arranged and shown in the table.

Also, the total amount of fee captured by Metaplex is calculated about 2299 Sol.

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Metaplex Bot Free

Introduction: