How LetsBonk.fun launches work
LetsBonk.fun launched in April 2025 with Raydium: connect a Solana wallet, type a name and a ticker, and the token is live on-chain in seconds, with no code. Every token routes straight into Raydium and Jupiter, so it shows up on the main Solana DEXes from its first trade.
The 1% trade fee is split between buying and burning BONK, which cuts supply, and funding Solana validators. Nothing is cashed out to the team.
In July 2025 LetsBonk did $539M of volume in a single day, launched more than 18,000 tokens in 24 hours, and earned twice Pump.fun's platform fees. It made over $1M in revenue that day without launching a token of its own (CryptoRank covered the flip).
Traders work it with two bots: BonkBot to snipe launches the moment they go live, and Trojan to copy wallets that trade LetsBonk tokens well.
LetsBonk.fun vs Pump.fun: where the fees go
The real difference is where your 1% goes: LetsBonk burns BONK and pays validators, Pump.fun takes its fees in USDC. LetsBonk was built as an answer to Pump.fun traders' complaints: fees cashed out, no buybacks, and more than 60% of participants losing money.
| LetsBonk.fun | Pump.fun | |
|---|---|---|
| Fee destination | BONK buy-and-burn plus Solana validators | Cashed out to USDC |
| DEX listing | Straight onto Raydium and Jupiter | Migration to PumpSwap |
| Backing | BONK ecosystem and Raydium | Independent team |
| Peak day | $539M volume (July 2025), ahead of Pump.fun that day |
LetsBonk is more transparent than Pump.fun, not safer. Rug pulls, honeypots and copycat tickers are just as common, because the risk sits in the tokens, not in the launchpad. Bots for Pump.fun itself are compared in our Pump.fun sniper bot guide.
Sniping LetsBonk.fun launches with BonkBot
BonkBot is the BONK team's own Telegram bot: Jupiter plus proprietary routing across Solana DEXes, 1% per swap, all of it spent buying BONK (10% burned, 10% to the BONK DAO).
The workflow is short. A contract address appears in your alpha feed, you paste it into BonkBot, and with Auto Buy set up the buy goes out at once with your preset size, slippage and gas. Use MEV Turbo for speed on a launch entry, and MEV Secure, which routes through Jito to block sandwich attacks, for larger fills where sandwich risk costs more than milliseconds.
- Auto Buy: preset amount, fires the moment you paste a contract address.
- MEV Turbo or MEV Secure: speed or sandwich protection, chosen per trade.
- PnL overview: profit, market cap and price changes over several timeframes inside Telegram.
- DCA and limit orders: built into the bot to manage a position after entry.
- Telemetry web terminal: X-Ray token scans, Whale Moves feed and Auto-Strat at app.telemetry.io.
- BONK buy-and-burn: each 1% fee buys BONK, and part of it is burned.
Outside wallets import into the bot, so splitting risk tiers across wallets is easy. The catch: copy trading isn't in the Telegram bot; it runs in Telemetry. That's why many traders snipe with BonkBot and copy trade with Trojan. The full breakdown is in our BonkBot and Telemetry review.
Copying LetsBonk.fun wallets with Trojan
Trojan has passed $25 billion in lifetime volume and 2 million users, and its copy trading module mirrors the buys and sells of any Solana wallet with your own filters. Filters cover market cap range, minimum liquidity, max spend per buy and a separate auto-sell per position.
The work starts before Trojan: you need wallets that are profitable on LetsBonk over many trades, not one lucky hit. Our guide to finding meme coin sniper wallets covers the on-chain research.
With targets set, BOLT fills in under 2 seconds, and the Migration Sniper buys automatically the moment a token finishes its bonding curve and migrates to Raydium, one of the cleanest entries on the platform. Trojan charges 1% per trade, 0.9% with a referral, and the Arena cashback returns up to 45% in SOL at Titan rank.
- Copy filters: market cap, liquidity, max spend per buy and auto-sell per position.
- Migration Sniper: automatic buy when a token moves from bonding curve to Raydium.
- BOLT: execution in under 2 seconds, built to keep failed transactions rare at volume.
- Arena cashback: up to 45% back in SOL at Titan rank.
- Multi-wallet: up to 10 wallets, importable into the Trojan web terminal.
- Daily Jackpot: 10% of Trojan's daily fees goes to one user each day.
More in our Trojan review.
How to snipe a LetsBonk.fun launch, step by step
Configure everything before the launch; once the contract address drops, you should only have to paste.
Start BonkBot in Telegram
Open BonkBot; it generates a Solana wallet at setup. Export the private key from settings and store it offline, then fund the wallet with SOL you're prepared to lose in that session.
Configure Auto Buy
In settings, set the default SOL amount, slippage at 15 to 20% for new launches, and turn on MEV Turbo. These values fire on every paste, so set them before the action starts.
Build your alpha sources
Join 3 to 5 Solana launch groups with a real signal, follow X callers who post contract addresses with context, and keep the LetsBonk.fun trending page open. Seeing the contract early counts for more than execution speed.
Snipe the launch
When a contract drops, check it on Solscan in 10 seconds: real token, clean deployer, initial liquidity in place. If it passes, paste it into BonkBot and Auto Buy fires. Decide before you paste.
Set your exit before emotions do
Put in a limit sell right after entry, at a target chosen beforehand: 2x, 3x or a market cap level. Take partial profits early and let only house money ride.
Run Trojan copy trades in the background
While BonkBot handles active snipes, let Trojan copy the wallets you've researched. Cap the spend per copy and set auto-sell so no position runs away from you.
LetsBonk.fun launches worth studying
These three LetsBonk.fun launches moved before most traders could react.
- 🚀 $SAVOUR: 10x in under 12 hours. BonkBot users with Auto Buy on early community calls were in before the second wave.
- 🐒 $WUKONG: an $18M market cap before a single tweet. The entry wallet was traceable on-chain, so a Trojan copy trader following it caught the move.
- 😂 Useless Coin: no utility, no roadmap, a $264M market cap on meme energy and LetsBonk liquidity from day one.
None of them was predictable; all of them were fast. The edge came from tools set up before the launch.
LetsBonk.fun risks: transparent is not safe
Launching a token on LetsBonk takes seconds and nobody vets launches, so rugs, honeypots and copycat tickers are part of the daily flow. The platform itself doesn't hold your funds; the risk sits in what launches on it.
Check before every buy:
- Contract address verified on Solscan before you paste it anywhere.
- Liquidity added after launch, not only at deployment.
- Holder concentration: top 5 wallets holding 80% or more of supply is a red flag.
- Burner wallet for high-risk plays.
- Profits in stages; never wait for a clean top.
BonkBot covers fast sniping in Telegram. If you need copy trading inside the Telegram bot itself, Trojan fits better. Both appear in our Solana sniper bot comparison.
