Solana WET Token Presale Halted After Bot Farm Snipes Sale

Another day, another presale ambushed by bots—welcome to crypto's automated frontier.

Solana's latest token launch hit a hard stop when automated traders vacuumed up the entire WET token offering before human investors could click 'buy.' The team pulled the plug mid-sale, leaving a trail of frustrated participants and raising familiar questions about fairness in decentralized finance.

The Bot Takeover

These weren't casual scripts—sophisticated bot farms deployed custom code to bypass standard purchase limits and transaction queues. They executed bulk buys in milliseconds, exploiting gas optimizations and mempool monitoring to front-run every legitimate order.

The result? A sell-out that looked more like a digital heist than a community launch.

Presale Mechanics Under Fire

This isn't Solana's first bot-battle, but each incident chips away at the 'fair launch' narrative. Teams keep designing elaborate anti-bot measures—whitelists, captchas, tiered systems—only to watch determined programmers crack them like cheap safes.

Meanwhile, retail investors get the familiar choice: become a developer yourself or accept your place at the back of the line. Because in crypto's efficiency paradise, the fastest code wins—ethics optional.

The Aftermath

The WET team now faces the messy cleanup: refund processing, community management, and the inevitable 'how we'll fix it next time' roadmap. They'll likely implement stricter controls for round two, which will work perfectly until the next bot evolution drops.

It's the DeFi cycle of life—build, exploit, patch, repeat. All while VCs and bot operators pocket the alpha, and everyone else gets a masterclass in digital inequality. Because nothing says 'financial revolution' like needing a computer science degree to participate.

Bots took over the sale, leaving real buyers out

The presale was supposed to be fair. It was split into three groups: one for Jupiter stakers, one for whitelist buyers, and a public sale. Even with these rules, the bot wallets quickly connected to the smart contract and bought nearly all the tokens before anyone else could join. 

good news: the $WET presale was very hyped and a lot of people wanted to get in.

bad news: just a few botters were able to use bundled txns to snipe a substantial amount of the supply in seconds.

good news: after discussing with the @humidifi team, we're going to find a…

“For the public sale, a bot farm sniped the entire supply instantly and weterans were not able to participate.” HumidiFi wrote on X.

HumidiFi’s fix: A new token and airdrop for real users

To fix the problem, HumidiFi said it WOULD create a new token and give a pro-rata airdrop to real buyers. They said the bot attacker would not get anything.

“We are creating a new token. All Wetlist and JUP staker buyers will receive a pro-rata airdrop. The sniper is not getting shit,” the team said. A new public sale will happen soon.

Blockchain analytics firm Bubblemaps found that the attack came from one main person controlling at least 1,100 of the 1,530 wallets used in the presale. Bubblemaps CEO Nick Vaiman said that the wallets showed the same patterns in funding and timing.

BREAKING: We found the identity of the $WET sniper

"Ramarxyz" claimed 70% of the @HumidiFi presale using 1,000+ wallets

Then dared to ask for a refund

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“Despite some of the clusters not connected together onchain, the behavioral similarities in size, time, and funding all point to a single entity,” he said.

Bubblemaps also linked the attack to an X account, “Ramarxyz,” who asked for a refund after the attack. The company noted that the suspicious wallets were funded in a tight time window with 1,000 USDC each, which shows that the attacker had planned the buy carefully.

Impact on WET presale

The initial WET presale raised $1.39 million in USDC, valuing the project at $69 million. The token briefly ROSE to $0.25 before falling to $0.15 after the bot attack was revealed. The new token distribution, planned for December 9, may be delayed because of the relaunch.

HumidiFi has rapidly become one of Solana’s highest-volume DEXs, known for its dark-liquidity architecture designed to hide order FLOW and reduce MEV attacks. 

According to DeFiLlama, the platform processed $833M in 24h volume, $7.7B over 7 days, and $29.9B in 30-day volume, with $122B+ in cumulative trading activity. Its rapid growth since mid-2025 has made it a preferred venue for whales seeking low slippage and private execution.

HumidiFi routes trades through encrypted liquidity pools, preventing front-running and reducing price impact during volatile periods. However, the WET presale incident shows that while HumidiFi’s design protects regular trading, contract-level presale sniping is a separate vulnerability that MEV shielding alone cannot prevent.

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