Banana Gun

TLDR: Banana Gun is a trading bot platform for on-chain tokens. Traders use it through Telegram or the Banana Pro web terminal to buy and sell quickly, snipe new launches, set limit orders and copy other wallets on Solana and several EVM chains.

What Banana Gun is

Banana Gun began in 2023 as a Telegram trading bot for Ethereum. It is now a multichain trading platform. Its documentation calls it "the #1 platform for on-chain trading" and lists three products: Banana Pro (a web app), Banana Gun SOL (a Telegram bot for Solana) and Banana Gun EVM (a Telegram bot for EVM networks). The official site lists ETH, SOL, BSC, Base, Robinhood, Stable, HyperEVM and MegaETH as supported chains.

The project's pitch is speed. When a token has just launched or is moving fast, traders want to act without going through a wallet interface and DEX front end. Banana Gun handles routing, transaction submission and priority settings inside a chat window or trading terminal.

The Solana bot went live in January 2024. The team said at the time that it would keep adding features after testing. By its own figures, the platform has handled more than 26 million trades, over $16 billion in lifetime volume and more than 1.5 million lifetime users across all chains.

How it works on Solana

The Banana Gun SOL docs describe the basic flow. A user pastes a token address, a [[PROJECT:224]] link or a Dexscreener URL into the Telegram bot, and Banana Gun places the buy right away. The bot manages the wallet that signs trades, so users don't connect an external wallet for each transaction.

The main Solana features in the docs are:

• Spot buys and sells with preset amounts for one-tap trading.
• Auto-sniping, which buys a token as soon as it launches or becomes tradable.
• Limit orders, including take-profit and stop-loss exits.
• Copy trading, which mirrors the trades of wallets the user chooses to follow.
• Private transactions and MEV protection. Independent reviews say the Solana bot sends protected transactions through [[PROJECT:228]] bundles.
• Anti-rug protection. The site says it "monitors contracts and pending transactions" to spot malicious activity and try to exit before it lands.

Banana Pro and the unified bot

Banana Pro is a web trading terminal with a customizable layout. It includes wallet tracking, multi-chart views, sniping tools and launchpad integrations such as pump.fun. It's aimed at traders who want more screen space and data than a Telegram chat gives them.

In August 2026, Banana Gun released a unified Telegram bot. It replaced the separate buy and sell bots with one interface covering Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, Base and MegaETH. The release added Normal and Fast trade presets, multi-hop routing, copy trading across all five chains, built-in dollar-cost averaging, and real-time sync between the Telegram bot and Banana Pro. The site also lists Banana Predict, a prediction market for crypto prices, trending events and sports.

Fees and the BANANA token

According to the official site, Banana Gun charges 0.5% on manual trades and 1% on snipes. BANANA holders get extra perks, including free trades, cashback bonuses and higher referral percentages.

BANANA is the platform's ecosystem token. Banana Gun says holders receive 40% of all platform trading fees, paid out every four hours. The token first launched in September 2023. The Block and The Defiant both reported that a bug in the tax logic, which two audits had missed, let holders sell while keeping tax tokens. The price crashed within hours. The team took a snapshot of affected holders and said it would relaunch the token with an airdrop to make them whole. BANANA was later included in Binance's HODLer Airdrops program and listed on Binance in July 2024.

Security history

Banana Gun is custodial in practice: the bot holds the keys to the wallets that sign users' trades. That makes its own security central to the risk of using it. On September 19, 2024, attackers drained about $3 million from 11 users, most of them experienced traders. The Block reported that the team traced the cause to a vulnerability in the Telegram message oracle the bot uses, and that the transfers appeared to have been executed manually. Banana Gun shut its bots down, patched the issue and refunded all affected users from its treasury, saying no tokens would be sold to fund the refunds. It also added a two-hour transfer delay, two-factor authentication for transfers, and audits of its back-end and front-end systems.

Place in the Solana ecosystem

Banana Gun is one of the best-known trading bots in Solana's memecoin and new-launch market, alongside other Telegram and web terminals. Its Solana version is built around pump.fun launches, Dexscreener-driven discovery and priority transaction submission through Jito. Its multichain setup lets one account trade Solana and EVM tokens from the same interface.

Like every bot of this kind, it trades speed and convenience for custody risk and fees. Users are trusting Banana Gun's infrastructure with their trading wallets.