BONKbot

BONKbot is a Telegram trading bot for buying and selling Solana tokens, built around the Bonk Bonk$0.00000296-3.1% memecoin community and launched in late 2023. Users trade from a wallet the bot creates for them: paste a token address, tap a preset amount, and the swap routes through Jupiter JUP$0.291-5.3% at a flat 1% fee per successful swap. Around the bot sits Telemetry, a web and mobile trading terminal that shares the same wallet and adds charts, wallet tracking and token discovery. Part of BONKbot's fee revenue has historically gone to buying and burning BONK. As of October 2026 its website reports 69.3 million trades, $10.1 billion in volume and 452,000 users.

How BONKbot works on Telegram

BONKbot runs as the Telegram bot @bonkbot_bot. Typing /start creates an empty Solana wallet that you buy and sell from, per the setup guide. Using it takes four steps:

1. Fund the bot wallet with SOL, by transfer from another wallet or, since a December 2024 MoonPay integration, with a card, Apple Pay or Google Pay.
2. Paste a contract address or a link from Pump.fun, DEXscreener, Birdeye or Meteora MET$0.344-5.8%.
3. Buy with a preset button or a custom amount.
4. Sell in one tap or by percentage.

To withdraw, you send funds out of the bot wallet or export its private key. The key can then be imported into a self-custody wallet such as Phantom. Once 2FA is set up, the Signer documentation requires it for seed phrase exports and withdrawals.

Swaps route through Jupiter alongside BONKbot's own routing logic. In September 2026 BONKbot added Pump.fun custom pairs and support for every StonkFun token, so launchpad tokens quoted against assets other than SOL can be traded from the bot and Telemetry.

BONKbot fees, cashback and referrals

BONKbot charges 1% on each successful swap. There is no subscription, and failed transactions are not charged. Solana priority fees and any Jito tip you set come on top.

Telemetry pays part of that fee back through Cashback. The rate runs in 13 tiers from 5% (Iron) to 25% (Platinum III) of fees and is paid in SOL. Tiers depend on trailing volume, with your own volume counted at five times and your direct referrals' volume added on.

The two products also run separate referral programs. Telemetry pays a flat 30% revenue share across three referral levels. BONKbot's Telegram program pays 30% of a referral's fees in the first month, 20% in the second and 10% for life after that. Cashback and Telemetry referral earnings stack.

Where BONKbot fees go: the BONK burn

BONKbot's fee model has been tied to the BONK token since launch. Reporting from 2024 describes 10% of fees going to buy and burn BONK and another 10% going to the BONK DAO. In 2024 the DAO voted to burn about 278 billion BONK, which it described as 100% of the BONK it had earned from its BONKbot revenue share since launch. The proposal passed with 99.9% of votes.

The Token Incinerator Program offers the same mechanic to other communities. New users who join through a partnered token's referral link have 20% of their trading fees used to buy and burn that token. For existing users the split is 10% to the incinerator and 10% to their original referrer. More than 22 tokens take part, including POPCAT and BERN.

BONKbot's current documentation does not publish the BONK fee split. Treat the figures above as historical rather than a current guarantee.

BONKbot limit orders, DCA, sniping and MEV protection

BONKbot's limit orders cover Buy Dip, Buy Breakout, limit sells for take profit and stop loss, and a trailing stop loss. They support partial fills, so an order can fill in pieces in thin markets. DCA buys and sells run on a fixed schedule. Stealth DCA, launched in December 2024, keeps order intent off-chain until execution to reduce front-running.

Nighthawk is the sniping module for buying tokens at launch. Precision Snipes enforce market cap limits and fixed loss parameters. Speed Snipes drop those checks for faster execution.

MEV protection uses Jito JTO$0.443-5.5% in two modes:

• Turbo sends through Jito only when that is the fastest path, so a trade can go out unprotected.
• Secure always protects against front-running, at the cost of speed unless you raise the tip.

Priority can be set to Medium, High, Very High or a custom value.

Other tools include Alpha Alerts (token signals in Telegram), shareable P&L cards, and Kill Cams, short video clips of trades that went live in August 2026.

Telemetry by BONKbot: the web and mobile trading terminal

Telemetry is BONKbot's browser-based terminal. Wallets and positions are shared with the Telegram bot. On a phone it installs as a home-screen web app, with no app-store download. Its main tools:

• Wallet Tracker: follow wallets in real time, with trades marked on charts, confluence alerts when several tracked wallets buy the same token, and list imports from Axiom, BullX and Ray Bot. An August 2026 rebuild raised the limit to 10,000 wallets per list and added shareable lists that carry your referral link. It shows what other wallets did and does not copy their trades for you.
• X-Ray and Discovery: token discovery with custom filters. Since September 2026, X-Ray also shows holder-reward percentages for Pump.fun and StonkFun tokens.
• Rewind: summarises the last 1, 6 or 24 hours of market moves, including an AI briefing and what your tracked wallets bought or sold.
• Auto Strat: up to three saved take-profit and stop-loss strategies, each with up to four orders, applied automatically when a position opens.
• Overwatch: a customisable sidebar of modules such as Whale Moves, Watchlists and Portfolio.

Limit orders can be placed directly from the chart, and accounts can sign in with Google.

Is BONKbot safe? Custody, 2FA and past incidents

BONKbot describes itself as non-custodial. According to its security docs, your private key is generated and sealed inside a remote "Signer". BONKbot calls this a secure execution environment, says key memory is wiped after each use, and says each transaction must match a template you approved. In practice, BONKbot's infrastructure holds the key and signs on your behalf. That is a different trust model from a wallet whose key exists only on your own device. You are relying on BONKbot's servers, and on your Telegram account, unless you add 2FA. Per-transaction 2FA is optional.

The rest of the risk picture:

• Audits: we found no public third-party security audit of BONKbot or the Signer.
• Programs: BONKbot lists no on-chain program of its own. Swaps execute through Jupiter and other venues, so smart-contract upgrade risk sits with those protocols.
• March 2024 wallet drains: users reported losing about $208,000, in the same episode that drained Solareum users. BONKbot said it found no breach of its own systems and blamed a vulnerability in another Solana application. It said the drained accounts had exported their keys and that about 0.1% of its traders were affected.
• Impersonators: fake BONKbot accounts are a known scam vector, and BONKbot's docs warn users not to search for support usernames themselves.
• BONK DAO treasury: in July 2026 a governance attack drained about 4.4 trillion BONK from the BONK DAO treasury, the DAO that has received part of BONKbot's fees. BONKbot's own systems were not involved.
• Token risk: the bot makes buying any token easy, including rugs and honeypots. Its safety guides cover checking mint authority, freeze authority and burnt liquidity before you buy.

The sensible approach is to treat the bot wallet as a trading float: keep only what you are actively trading, sweep profits to a self-custody wallet, and turn on 2FA.

Who BONKbot suits

BONKbot suits active Solana memecoin and launchpad traders who want fast entries and exits from their phone without opening a DEX interface, and who accept a hosted hot wallet. Telemetry fits the same traders on desktop, especially wallet trackers and anyone who wants charts and discovery tools next to execution.

It is a poor fit for long-term holders, for anyone uncomfortable with a provider-held signing key, and for very high-frequency traders with small tickets. At 1% per swap, a buy and a sell cost about 2% of the position before slippage and priority fees, although Telemetry cashback reduces that for high-volume traders.

BONKbot vs Trojan and other alternatives

The closest alternative is Trojan, another Solana trading bot on Telegram with its own fee and referral structure. Both use hosted wallets, so the choice usually comes down to interface preferences, referral economics and execution speed. Unlike Trojan, BONKbot has the BONK burn link.

Web terminals such as Axiom, Photon, BullX and GMGN are the main alternatives to Telemetry. Telemetry's own import tools name Axiom and BullX. Banana Gun and Maestro are Telegram bots that also cover EVM chains, while BONKbot is Solana-only.

For occasional swaps where speed matters less, trading directly on Jupiter from a self-custody wallet avoids both the bot fee and the hosted-key model.

BONKbot history, scale and team

BONKbot launched in November 2023 as part of the BONK ecosystem. Its biggest single day came during the JUP token launch on January 31, 2024, when it collected $1.23 million in fees. It also took $10.3 million in fees that January. Volume, trade and user totals on its website stood at 69.3 million trades, $10.1 billion and 452,000 users as of October 2026. Current fees and volume appear in the data panels on this page.

The team is largely pseudonymous. Co-founder DefiAzog has described the goal as putting "the fastest and simplest trading experience on Solana into everyone's pocket so users can trade as fast as memecoin markets move." BONKbot has no token of its own; its token link is to BONK. Most of BONKbot's announced releases since August 2026 have focused on Telemetry, per its X account. For an early interview on how the bot was built, see our podcast summary Bonkbot and memecoin trading on Telegram.