You buy, snipe, or copy-trade straight from a chat\u00a0window.<\/p>\n
No app switching.<\/p>\n
Image by Emily HODLer,\u00a0PhD<\/a><\/p>\n I went through the bots that actually show up in serious trading groups right now\u200a\u2014\u200areal volume, real users, not just a landing page with big\u00a0claims.<\/p>\n Two of them have documented security incidents. If you use them, here\u2019s what that means for you specifically: your funds could be drained from the bot\u2019s wallet if the underlying contract or infrastructure is exploited, sometimes within minutes, before you\u2019d even notice something was\u00a0wrong.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve laid out exactly what happened in each case, what got refunded, and what it means for your own risk\u200a\u2014\u200asources linked throughout.<\/p>\n Quick note before we get into it: this isn\u2019t financial advice. The full disclaimer is at the\u00a0bottom.<\/p>\n 1. Trojan<\/p>\n 2. Dawn<\/p>\n 3. GMGN<\/p>\n 4. Maestro<\/p>\n 5. Banana\u00a0Gun<\/p>\n Sources: fee and feature details pulled from each bot\u2019s own documentation and cross-checked against MadeOnSol\u2019s live comparison database (see links throughout).<\/p>\n Trojan (built by the same team behind the earlier Unibot on Solana) is currently one of the highest-volume Telegram trading bots on the market. Numbers vary a bit depending on which source you check and when it was last updated, but reported figures put lifetime volume north of $17 billion, with some more recent write-ups citing $25 billion-plus and over 2 million users\u200a\u2014\u200aeither way, it\u2019s operating at a scale most competitors aren\u2019t close\u00a0to.<\/p>\n It runs on what Trojan <\/a>calls BOLT<\/strong>, its execution engine, which reportedly gets trades done in under two seconds. It also includes MEV protection routed through Jito, copy trading that mirrors any public Solana wallet with your own filters for spend and slippage, limit orders, DCA, and a bridge for moving funds between Ethereum and Solana. The fee sits at 1%, or 0.9%<\/a> if you sign up through a referral link. In January 2026, Trojan also rolled out something called The Arena<\/strong>, a loyalty layer with cashback and reward tiers for active traders (terms on this have reportedly shifted since launch, so check Trojan\u2019s own site for the current structure).<\/p>\n Trojan generates its own wallet for you. It\u2019s not a custodian in the traditional sense, but that wallet still lives inside Trojan\u2019s infrastructure. I couldn\u2019t independently verify a specific third-party audit partnership, so I\u2019m leaving that claim out. Here\u2019s the concrete risk: if Trojan\u2019s infrastructure is ever compromised, whatever sits in that generated wallet is exposed, not your main holdings elsewhere. Keep only trading funds in it. Move profits out regularly instead of letting them stack up in the bot\u2019s\u00a0wallet.<\/p>\n As of the most recent reviews I could find (mid-2026), Trojan has no publicly reported major security incidents, which is notable given how much volume it\u2019s processing.<\/p>\n Dawn\u2019s whole pitch is solving a problem that anyone trading across more than one chain has run into\u200a\u2014\u200athe annoyance of holding a separate wallet and a separate gas token for every network you touch. Run out of BNB and you can\u2019t trade on BNB Chain, even if your Solana balance is\u00a0fine.<\/p>\n Dawn<\/a> gets rid of that entirely. You fund a single USDC balance, and when you buy something on a different chain, Dawn moves your funds there for you\u200a\u2014\u200ano manual bridging. It supports Solana, Base, BNB Chain, Robinhood Chain, Arc, and Ink, and covers gas fees up to $5 per trade, so you\u2019re not stuck buying small amounts of six different native tokens just to keep trading. The fee is 1%, and cashback is reportedly in the 25\u201355% range depending on activity.<\/p>\n On the wallet side, Dawn uses Privy for wallet infrastructure rather than storing your private key on its own internal servers directly, and the wallet can reportedly be exported. That\u2019s a meaningfully different security model from a bot that generates and holds your keys entirely in-house.<\/p>\n The one real gap: no Ethereum or HyperEVM support yet. If you\u2019re chasing a token on either of those chains, Dawn simply can\u2019t execute the trade. You\u2019d need a second bot open at the same time, which brings back some of the multi-tool friction Dawn is otherwise built to\u00a0remove.<\/p>\n GMGN<\/a> works a bit differently from the others on this list\u200a\u2014\u200ait\u2019s as much a web-based analytics terminal as it is a Telegram bot, and its actual strength is smart-money wallet tracking. Instead of just showing you what\u2019s trending, it tracks specific wallets over time and flags which ones are consistently profitable, which is what makes its copy-trading feature genuinely useful rather than a coin\u00a0flip.<\/p>\n The fee is 1%, dropping to 0.9% with a referral code (MadeOnSol), though you\u2019ll see third-party codes<\/a> online advertising steeper discounts\u200a\u2014\u200aI\u2019d treat anything beyond the documented 0.9% as unverified until you\u2019ve checked it yourself. GMGN supports Solana, Ethereum, Base, and BNB\u00a0Chain,<\/p>\n and includes rug-check tooling that flags suspicious contracts before you trade, which matters given how many new launches are built to fail on\u00a0purpose.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s the specific way copy trading burns people: a wallet wins two trades in a row. You start mirroring it automatically. On the third trade, that wallet buys into a token that\u2019s about to be rugged, and your money follows it in real time with no pause to think. A hot streak isn\u2019t a strategy. Use wallet tracking as a lead to investigate, not a signal to auto-buy.<\/p>\n Maestro has been a fixture in the sniping and copy-trading bot space for a long time, with support across Solana, Ethereum, BSC, and a few other chains, all at a flat 1% fee. It\u2019s also one of two bots on this list with a real security incident worth knowing\u00a0about.<\/p>\n In October 2023, an exploit in Maestro\u2019s router<\/a> contract let attackers pull roughly 280 ETH\u200a\u2014\u200aaround<\/p>\n $500,000 at the time\u200a\u2014\u200afrom users\u2019 approved token balances. The team caught it, froze the router within about 30 minutes, and patched it. They then went further than a lot of projects do: Maestro refunded <\/a>affected users using 610 ETH from its own treasury, worth over $1 million at the time, including a 20% bonus on top of what was actually\u00a0lost.<\/p>\n That\u2019s a genuinely good response. But it doesn\u2019t erase what happened. A router-level vulnerability doesn\u2019t care how polished the Telegram interface looks on top of it. Concretely: if a similar flaw ever resurfaced, you could see tokens or funds leave an approved contract without you initiating a transaction at all. Check Maestro\u2019s current documentation for what\u2019s changed in their contract design since 2023 before you assume today\u2019s version carries the same risk as the one that got\u00a0hit.<\/p>\n Banana Gun built its reputation on speed\u200a\u2014\u200afast sniping, Anti-Rug protection, copy trading, limit orders, and DCA, at 1% on auto-snipe buys and 0.5% on manual\u00a0trades.<\/p>\n It\u2019s the second bot on this list with a documented incident. On September 19, 2024, attackers used what Banana Gun\u2019s team later identified as a vulnerability <\/a>in the Telegram message oracle the bot relies on, manually draining roughly $3 million from 11 users\u200a\u2014\u200anotably, experienced traders rather than beginners, which is part of why the number of victims was small but the total loss was large. The team fully refunded affected users<\/a> from its own treasury and added new safeguards afterward, including two-factor authentication for transfers and a two-hour transfer\u00a0delay.<\/p>\n Worth noting: this wasn\u2019t a platform-wide hack. It targeted specific high-value wallets, not every user on the bot. If you\u2019re a small trader, that\u2019s a somewhat different risk than Maestro\u2019s router flaw, which could have hit any approved wallet regardless of balance. But if you build up a large balance in Banana Gun over time, you become exactly the kind of target this attack went\u00a0after.<\/p>\n Banana Gun\u2019s Anti-Rug filter is a genuinely useful precaution. The team hasn\u2019t published the full algorithm behind it, so here\u2019s the practical risk: a token can pass the filter and still turn out to be a rug pull, because the filter checks for known patterns, not every possible scam. Treat it as one extra check, not a green\u00a0light.<\/p>\n After going through all five, a handful of things mattered more than any feature\u00a0list:<\/p>\n If you trade across multiple chains: <\/strong>Dawn\u2019s single-balance, no-manual-bridging setup genuinely saves time and reduces how many places your funds are sitting at once. Nothing else on this list handles that as\u00a0cleanly.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re Solana-only and want depth: <\/strong>Trojan\u2019s feature set\u200a\u2014\u200aBOLT execution, copy trading, DCA, the Arena rewards layer\u200a\u2014\u200ais built for someone trading heavily on one chain rather than spreading across\u00a0several.<\/p>\n If your strategy leans on following other traders: <\/strong>GMGN\u2019s wallet-tracking is the most developed version of that idea here, provided you treat it as a signal to investigate, not an autopilot switch.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re using Maestro or Banana Gun: <\/strong>both are still widely used and both refunded their affected users in full, but go in knowing the history, keep balances small, and don\u2019t treat a past refund as a guarantee about the\u00a0future.<\/p>\n Across all five, the same rule applies: start with an amount you can afford to lose completely. Here\u2019s why that matters concretely. If a token rugs, your funds are gone the moment liquidity is pulled, usually in seconds, with no recovery mechanism. If the bot itself is compromised, your funds can leave the wallet without you clicking anything. A bot only changes how fast you can act on a decision. It doesn\u2019t protect you from a bad decision.<\/p>\n Are Telegram trading bots\u00a0safe?<\/strong><\/p>\n Not fully. Two of the five bots here have had real security incidents where users lost real money. If a bot\u2019s wallet is compromised, funds can disappear in minutes with no way to reverse it. Check the wallet custody model before you deposit anything.<\/p>\n Do I need a different bot for each\u00a0chain?<\/strong><\/p>\n Usually, yes. Dawn is the exception\u200a\u2014\u200aone balance covers Solana, Base, BNB Chain, and a few others. With most other bots, if you want to trade a token on a chain the bot doesn\u2019t cover with a shared balance, you\u2019ll need to hold that chain\u2019s gas token separately or run a second bot alongside it.<\/p>\n What\u2019s the actual difference between these\u00a0fees?<\/strong><\/p>\n Most charge 1%, dropping to about 0.9% with a referral code. Banana Gun splits it: 0.5% on manual trades, 1% on auto-snipes. On a $1,000 trade, that\u2019s the difference between paying $10 and paying\u00a0$5.<\/p>\n Does a past security incident mean I should avoid a bot entirely?<\/strong><\/p>\n Not automatically. Both Maestro and Banana Gun refunded every affected user in full. But a refund only happens after the fact\u200a\u2014\u200aduring the actual exploit, affected users had no way to stop funds from leaving their wallets in real time. Decide if you\u2019re comfortable with that\u00a0gap.<\/p>\n What\u2019s the single biggest thing to check before using any of these? <\/strong>Whether the bot can export your wallet\u2019s private key. If it can\u2019t, and the bot\u2019s servers ever go down or get compromised, you may have no way to recover funds sitting in that\u00a0wallet.<\/p>\n This is not financial advice. Trading memecoins carries real, substantial risk regardless of which bot you use to execute trades\u200a\u2014\u200aa bot can only affect the speed and mechanics of execution, not the quality of the token itself. Fee structures, supported chains, and security postures change over time; verify current details directly with each platform before depositing funds. Every tool here is only as good as the judgment of the person using\u00a0it.<\/em><\/p>\n I\u2019ve Analysed the Best Telegram Trading Bots for Memecoins in 2026<\/a> was originally published in Coinmonks<\/a> on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Memecoin trading punishes hesitation. You open a chart. You copy the contract address. You paste it into a DEX. By then, the token has usually already run. That\u2019s why Telegram trading bots\u00a0exist. You buy, snipe, or copy-trade straight from a chat\u00a0window. No app switching. 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Quick Comparison<\/h3>\n
1. Trojan<\/h4>\n
2. Dawn<\/h4>\n
3. GMGN<\/h4>\n
4. Maestro<\/h4>\n
5. Banana\u00a0Gun<\/h4>\n
Which Bot Actually Fits\u00a0You<\/h3>\n
FAQ<\/h3>\n
Disclaimer<\/h3>\n