Trojan Bot Review (2026): Features, Fees, Problems & Alternatives
Trojan is a Telegram trading bot for Solana. You open it in Telegram, it makes you a wallet, you send it SOL, and from then on you can buy any Solana token by pasting its contract address. No website, no browser extension. Most people end up on it because they want to trade memecoins faster than a DEX tab allows.
It's one of the biggest bots around. Trojan says it has done about $25 billion in volume across 140 million trades for 2 million users, most of it during the pump.fun run of 2024. It's also starting to show its age, especially if you copy trade. Below is what it does, where it falls down, and what we'd use instead.
By the numbers
- Volume
- $25B
- Trades
- 140M
- Users
- 2M
Trojan's own figures, mostly from the 2024 pump.fun run.
Trojan on Solana
At a glance
- Where it runs
- Telegram (@solana_trojanbot)
- Chains
- Solana only
- Balance
- SOL
- Trading fee
- 1%, or 0.9% with a referral
- Wallets
- Self-custodial, exportable
- Volume to date
- ~$25B over 140M trades
Quick answer
What is Trojan Bot?
- What it is
- Trojan Bot, also called Trojan on Solana, is a Telegram bot for trading Solana tokens. There's no website or browser extension to install.
- What it does
- It creates a self-custodial Solana wallet inside Telegram that you fund with SOL. From there you can buy a token by pasting its contract address, copy other wallets, place limit and DCA orders, and snipe new launches.
- Fees
- 1% of every trade, or 0.9% if you signed up through a referral link. Solana network fees and priority tips are on top.
- Who it suits
- Traders who only trade Solana, mostly buy and snipe by hand, and are happy keeping their balance in SOL.
- Main limitations
- It's Solana only, your balance is SOL rather than a stablecoin, and copy trades are only sent after the wallet you follow has confirmed, which one third-party review measured at roughly 2 to 5 seconds later.
- Why some prefer Dawn
- Dawn is another Telegram bot. It trades from one USDC balance across eight chains, covers gas up to $5 a trade, and gives you more control over how copy trades are sized and exited. That's why we'd pick it for copy trading, though if you only snipe Solana launches, Trojan still does the job.
Features
Trojan Bot features
Here's what you get once you're in. Not every menu option, just the parts of Trojan Bot people actually use.
Copy trading
Paste a wallet address and Trojan mirrors its buys and sells. You set how much SOL goes into each copy, a max position size, and take-profit or stop-loss levels. You can follow several wallets at once.
Limit and DCA orders
Limit orders wait for your price even with Telegram closed. DCA splits a buy or sell into smaller pieces over time, which helps when you don't want to move a whole bag in one go.
Auto-sniper and migration sniper
The sniper buys new tokens the second they launch, based on filters you set. The migration sniper does the same when a token graduates from a launchpad into a real liquidity pool.
Trenches
A live feed of fresh launchpad tokens with basic stats and a one-tap buy button. Trojan says it refreshes every 0.04 seconds.
Multi-wallet and bundle buys
Run several wallets from one chat, move funds between them, and buy from all of them at once.
MEV protection
Sends your swaps through a private route so sandwich bots can't see them coming and trade in front of you.
Backup bots
Nine copies of the main bot (Achilles, Odysseus, Hector and the rest of the Iliad) so you can keep trading when the main one is busy or down.
Referrals
Up to 45% of your referrals' fees across five layers. Trojan says it has paid out more than $65 million this way.
Getting started
How to use Trojan Bot
Getting set up takes a few minutes. These are the basics; Trojan moves its menus around from time to time, so check the official Trojan site if a button isn't where we describe it.
- 01
Start the official bot
Open Trojan from the link on trojanonsolana.com rather than searching Telegram, then press Start. Fake Trojan bots are common, so check you're in @solana_trojanbot.
- 02
Fund your wallet
Trojan creates a Solana wallet for you when you start. Send SOL to its address. That SOL is your trading balance, and it also pays network fees.
- 03
Buy a token
Paste the token's contract address into the chat and choose how much SOL to spend. Copy the address from a source you trust, since look-alike tokens are everywhere.
- 04
Set up copy trading
Add the wallet address you want to follow, then set how much SOL goes into each copy, a max position size, and take-profit or stop-loss levels before you switch it on. Start small while you see how the copies fill.
The catch
Trojan Bot problems: where it falls short
None of that is bad, and for a quick Solana trade it still does the job. The problems show up when you lean on it harder. Copy trading is usually where people notice first.
- 01Speed
Copy trades land late
Trojan waits for the wallet you follow to confirm on-chain before sending your trade. One third-party Trojan review measured that at around 2 to 5 seconds. On a fresh memecoin, that can be the difference between their entry and the top.
- 02Coverage
No multichain
Trojan is Solana only, so Base, BNB Chain and HyperEVM need another bot. And with no USDC balance, your cash between trades is SOL that moves with the market.
- 03Our take
Not moving much
The feature list looks a lot like it did a year ago, while newer bots have shipped multichain trading, gas sponsorship and more copy trading controls.
Security
Is Trojan Bot safe?
Trojan is a real, widely used bot, and its wallets are self-custodial. The risks are the ones that come with any Telegram trading bot: a hot wallet, a Telegram account that can be taken over, and a lot of people pretending to be Trojan.
Wallet security
Trojan's wallets are self-custodial and you can export the private key, so the funds are yours rather than held in an exchange account. But the bot has to be able to sign trades for you, so treat it as a hot wallet: anyone who gets into your Telegram account can trade with it.
Private keys and hot-wallet risk
Export your private key once, store it offline, and never paste it anywhere. Keep only what you're actively trading in the bot, move profits out to a wallet you control, and turn on two-step verification in Telegram.
Fake bots and fake support
Impersonators are the biggest risk around Trojan. Only use links from trojanonsolana.com. Nobody legitimate will DM you first, ask for your private key or seed phrase, or ask you to send funds to fix a problem.
Trading risk
The bot doesn't make memecoins safer. Prices move in seconds, copy trading copies losses as faithfully as wins, and users report sells and limit orders that didn't fill. MEV protection helps against sandwich bots, not against a token going to zero.
The alternative
The Trojan Bot alternative we'd pick: Dawn
Dawn is also a Telegram bot, so day to day it feels familiar. The difference is how it handles your money, and how much control it gives you over copy trading.
One USDC balance
Trade all of these from it. No bridging, no switching networks.
Solana
Base
BNB Chain
HyperEVM
Robinhood Chain
Arc
Ink
NEAR
Faster copy trading
Dawn is built to land your copies closer to the wallet you follow. That's Dawn's pitch, not something we've benchmarked ourselves.
Gas covered
Dawn pays the network fees. No SOL, BNB or ETH needed to trade.
Cashback and referrals
Part of every fee comes back to you, and you earn from the people you invite.
It's also clearly being worked on. Ladders, TWAP orders, trailing stops with dev-dump detection, trader alerts and separate profiles with their own settings are all in there already.
To be fair to Trojan: if you only snipe Solana launches by hand and you're happy holding SOL, it still does that job, and switching won't change much for you. Dawn earns its place once you copy trade or want more than one chain. Details are in Dawn's documentation.
Side by side
Trojan Bot vs Dawn
| Feature | TrojanSolana · SOL | Our pick Dawn8 chains · USDC |
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| Trading balance | SOL | USDC |
| Chains |
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| Gas | Paid by you, in SOL | Covered up to $5 a trade |
| Who you can copy |
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| Copy sizing |
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| Copy exits |
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| Trading fee | 1% (0.9% with referral) | 1% headline, 0.75% to 0.45% after cashback |
| MEV protection | Yes | Yes (Solana) |
Highlightedmeans only Dawn has it. Dawn's fee has a $0.35 minimum per trade; both bots add network costs on top, and Dawn covers gas up to its $5 cap. Features and fees are taken from each bot's own published information (Trojan, Dawn docs) and can change. This table compares features, not speed: we haven't run our own benchmark of either bot. |  Try Dawn | |
Moving over
Switching from Trojan Bot to Dawn
- 01
Start the bot
Open @DawnTradeBot in Telegram and hit start. Your wallet is created on the spot.
- 02
Fund it
Send funds from any supported chain. Coming from Trojan? Withdraw your SOL to your Dawn deposit address and it's converted to USDC.
- 03
Bring your wallets
Add the wallets you were copying on Trojan as copy tasks. Set sizing and slippage before you switch them on.
FAQ
Trojan Bot FAQ
Trojan Bot, also called Trojan on Solana, is a Telegram bot for trading Solana tokens. It creates a wallet for you inside Telegram, you fund it with SOL, and you can buy, sell, snipe launches and copy other wallets without leaving the chat.
It has been running since 2024, has handled billions in volume, and the wallets are self-custodial, so you can export your keys. The usual Telegram bot risks still apply. Anyone who gets into your Telegram account can trade your funds, and fake Trojan bots are common, so only use links from trojanonsolana.com.
1% of every trade, or 0.9% if you signed up through a referral link. Solana network fees and priority tips are on top of that.
No. Trojan trades out of SOL. You can buy USDC like any other token, but your trading balance, your gas and the proceeds of your sells are all SOL.
Because they land after the trade you're copying. Trojan waits for the leader's transaction to confirm and then sends yours, which one third-party review measured at roughly 2 to 5 seconds. On a fast-moving memecoin the price can move a lot in that time.
Yes, even if you only copy trade on Solana. Trojan waits for the wallet you follow to confirm before it sends your copy, which one review measured at 2 to 5 seconds. Dawn is faster, landing your copies closer to the leader's price, and gives you far more control over how copies are sized and exited. It also pays your gas up to $5 a trade and gives you one USDC balance across eight chains when you want to go beyond Solana. If you only ever snipe Solana launches, Trojan is still usable.
Yes. Your Dawn balance is USDC on Solana, so Solana trades have no extra routing cost. The other chains are there when you want them.
From the comments
Trojan Bot complaints on YouTube
We read the roughly 760 comments under 32 popular Trojan tutorials and reviews on YouTube. Most are setup questions. These are the complaints, word for word with the typos left in, and each one links to the original comment.
Trades that didn't go through
3 reports
Sells, copy trades and limit orders that never executed.
Sell failed
Copy trade missed the buys
Limit order didn't fill
Fees
2 reports
Costs that added up faster than people expected.
Fees ate the profit
DCA fees add up