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What Does 'Sniper Tax' Mean?

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[ SLANG ][ CRYPTO ][ NOUN ]

The effective cost ordinary buyers absorb from sniper bots front-running a token launch — buying at the absolute floor within milliseconds — distinct from bundler tax by coming from automated bots reacting to the launch rather than pre-coordinated wallets.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"The chart looks great until you realize the first thirty seconds were entirely sniper tax, bots front-running every real buyer."

LORE & ORIGIN

Named directly by traders analyzing launch mechanics, framing sniper-bot dominance of the earliest trades as an implicit cost imposed on human buyers who can't react at bot speed.

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2025
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2025-2026 (Meme Coin Trading Era)
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