Best Telegram trading bot Solana, and the alternatives

Ask which is the best Telegram trading bot Solana traders use and four names come back: BONKbot, Trojan, Maestro and Photon. They won for one reason, which is that the call and the buy button sit in the same window. The cost is written into each product’s own documentation: the key that signs your trades belongs to a wallet the bot generated, topped up by a deposit you send it. This page compares the four on that axis, with the fee and referral terms each published as of September 2026, and then covers the other way to close the same gap. That other way is Cherry, the wallet-to-wallet messenger and community app for crypto (web app at chat.cherry.fun, plus iOS, Android and a listing on the Solana dApp Store), where a contract address pasted into a group chat renders a token card and the buy button opens a swap your own wallet signs. This is for Solana traders who buy calls from a group chat and want to know where the signing key ends up.

What the best Telegram trading bot Solana traders share

All four put a trading wallet inside the product and take a percentage of every fill, so the comparison below is built on five questions rather than a feature list: where the signing key lives, whether you deposit before you can trade, the published fee, the referral share, and which window the trade happens in.

One point before the list: a referral share is a slice of the fee you pay, routed to whoever posted the link you clicked, which is why bot links travel so fast through call groups.

BONKbot

BONKbot runs as a Telegram chat. The bot creates a wallet for you, and the Wallet menu carries a “Deposit SOL” step you complete before the first buy. Its documentation describes the account as “secure, self-custodial” and the architecture as non-custodial, and private key export is a documented function, safeguarded by its two-factor setup.

Fee, as published in September 2026: BONKbot is free to set up, and a 1% fee is charged per successful transaction. Referrals on the Telegram bot pay 30% revenue share in the first month, 20% in the second and 10% for life. Telemetry, its web and mobile product, pays a flat 30% revenue share across three levels instead. Rewards on Telemetry return a share of fees that depends on your trading volume, and the published cashback ceiling is 25%, earned across trades and referrals.

Fit: reasonable if you already keep a small spending balance inside Telegram and want the shortest path from a call to a fill.

Trojan

Trojan on Solana is a Telegram bot built on generated trading wallets, and its documentation spells out what that means. It states that private keys are encrypted with industry standard encryption, that users have access to the private keys of their Trojan-generated trading wallets, and it closes the answer with a line worth repeating: always treat your wallet as a hot wallet. Export runs through Settings, then Wallets, then Export Private Keys; you can also import a wallet you already own.

You can deposit any Solana-network asset into the Trojan wallet. The fee published in September 2026 is 1% with 20% cashback on trading fees, deducted during swap routing and charged only on successful transactions. Referrals pay up to a 35% share across five layers, settled daily.

Fit: the largest published referral share of the six options compared here, and a documented path for importing a wallet you already control.

Maestro

Maestro is the multichain option: Solana alongside BSC, Base, Ethereum, Tron, TON and several more. The fee addresses are published: one each for Solana, Tron and TON, and one shared across its EVM chains. You can connect up to eight wallets per chain, ten on Premium. Keys are AES encrypted on Maestro’s side, and its security page is blunt about generated wallets: the private key and mnemonic are shown once in your chat with the bot, and if you lose them and delete that message there is no other way to retrieve them, though assets can still be moved out while the wallet stays connected.

The fee published in September 2026 is 1% on every buy and sell, with plain transfers untaxed. Cashback rebates 15% to 30% of that fee depending on volume tier, and the referral programme pays up to 25% lifetime commission.

Fit: the pick when your calls are not all on Solana and you would rather run one bot than four.

Photon

Photon is a browser terminal rather than a Telegram bot, which is why traders reach for it when charts and multi-wallet handling matter more than replying in the room. Wallet handling follows the same shape as the bots: pressing Generate creates a new wallet for you, the private key is revealed only once at that step, and you fund the trading wallet by moving SOL in from a funding wallet.

The fee published in September 2026 is 1% of the input token on every buy and sell. Photon’s documentation does not state a referral share.

Fit: good for chart-led workflows. The one-time key reveal is the step to slow down on, because it happens before you fund anything.

Cherry

Cherry answers the same problem from the other side: the chat is the product, and the swap happens inside it without a wallet being generated for you. You sign in with the wallet you already hold tokens in, and every swap is a Solana transaction that wallet signs. Cherry never custodies funds, and there is no deposit address to keep topped up.

The mechanism is short. Type $TICKER in the composer or paste a contract address, pick the token, and the message posts as a token card with price and market cap that every member of the room can act on. Pressing BUY opens a swap quoted through Jupiter, the confirm button reads “Sign & Buy”, and your wallet approves it. When a token has no route, the button reads NOT TRADABLE. On iOS, Swap and Buy are outbound links to Jupiter and MoonPay, to satisfy App Store rules.

Two things follow from having the trade inside the room. Where a group’s owner switches it on, a call bot ranks the tokens called in that room by peak multiplier since the call and credits the earliest caller, so the leaderboard sits with the calls themselves. And a trade another member shares in the chat can be copied from the chat in one tap, through the same swap flow.

The Trenches, a public Solana room on Cherry, carried 5,612 members and 15,671 messages in September 2026. Perpetual futures and tokenized stocks are separate: they live in the Trading Terminal mini app inside Cherry, not in the composer.

Fit: choose it when the room and the fill should be the same screen, and when you want the signing key to stay where it already is. The full mechanism is on the trading in chat page, and the scoring rules on the call bot page.

Your own wallet

The honest baseline. Open Jupiter or your wallet’s own swap screen, paste the contract address, sign. No deposit, no second key, no referral tier attached to your fills. What you give up is the conversation: you leave the room to trade, come back, and the call goes unrecorded.

Fit: right for size, for positions you are not racing anyone into, and for anyone who will not keep a hot balance anywhere.

Side by side

Terms as published in September 2026.

Which one to pick

Choose a Telegram bot if your community’s calls land in Telegram and two taps matter more than anything else. Then treat the bot balance as spending money: fund it per session, export the key where the product supports it, and keep long-term positions in a wallet no bot has ever signed for.

Choose in-chat swaps on Cherry if you want the call, the card and the fill on one screen, want to sign from the wallet that already holds your tokens, and want the room’s calls scored where they were made. Communities making the move usually read the Telegram alternative for crypto communities page first and then the move a community off Telegram guide.

Choose your wallet’s own swap screen when the size is large enough that convenience stops being the argument, or when you simply will not hold a balance in a chat account.

Nothing here is financial advice. Tokens can lose value.

Sign in with a wallet at chat.cherry.fun to try a swap from inside a room, or read where memecoin holders talk for the community side of the same question.

FAQ

Is a Telegram trading bot safe to use?

It depends on what you accept. BONKbot, Trojan, Maestro and Photon all trade from a wallet the bot generated, funded by a deposit you send it, so the balance sitting there is the amount exposed if your chat account is taken over. Trojan’s documentation puts it plainly: always treat that wallet as a hot wallet. Keep the balance small, export the key where the bot supports it, and hold long-term positions in a wallet no bot has ever touched.

What is the best Telegram trading bot on Solana?

There is no single answer, because all four publish the same 1% trading fee and differ mostly on terms. BONKbot and Trojan are Solana-first, Maestro adds EVM chains plus TON and Tron, and Photon is a browser terminal built around charts. Pick on where the signing key lives, what the referral share is worth to you, and whether you trade anything outside Solana.

Is there a BONKbot alternative that uses my own wallet?

Yes. In-chat swaps on Cherry are routed through Jupiter and signed by the wallet you connected, so there is no bot wallet to fund and no second key to store. What you give up is the Telegram habit; what you get is a room where the call, the token card and the fill are one screen.

Do Telegram trading bots take a cut of every trade?

Yes, and all four publish the same headline rate. BONKbot charges 1% per successful transaction, Trojan 1% with 20% cashback, Maestro 1% on every buy and sell with rebates of 15% to 30% by volume tier, and Photon 1% of the input token on every buy and sell. Referral links then pay part of that fee to whoever invited you, which is why bot links spread through group chats.

Can I trade in the group chat where the call was posted?

On Cherry, yes. A contract address or a $TICKER pasted into a room renders as a token card with price and market cap, and any member can press BUY and sign the swap from their own wallet. Where the group’s owner enables it, a call bot then ranks the room’s calls by peak multiplier since the call and credits whoever posted first.

Sources

• BONKbot fee structure
• BONKbot referrals and rewards
• BONKbot wallet security and 2FA
• Trojan on Solana FAQ
• Using Trojan on Solana
• Trojan wallet settings, export and import
• Trojan rewards programme
• Maestro fees
• Maestro security and private keys
• Maestro wallet setup
• Maestro referral programme
• Photon on SOL wallet setup
• Photon fees on Solana
• The Trenches on Cherry