Solana trading bots: what they do and how to run the same jobs on ripr

By ripr Editorial Team11 Nov 20267 min read

Solana trading bots are programs that watch the chain and trade for you, and almost all of them are hired to do four jobs: find coins, enter, exit and keep score. Working out which bot you want gets much easier once you know which of those four you actually need. On ripr, a Solana-only trading app, each of the four is a screen you can work yourself, and the exit can run on its own while the app is open.

What are Solana trading bots?

A Solana trading bot is a program that connects to a wallet, reads Solana market data and buys or sells on rules you set instead of taps you make. Most arrive as a chat interface, a browser terminal or a script on your own machine, and the rules are usually plain: buy when a coin matches a filter, sell at a target or at a stop level.

They have a following on Solana because trades settle quickly and cost little, and because new coins appear all day across bonding curves and pool venues. A rule can act at 3am. You cannot.

What a bot does not supply is judgement. A rule that buys anything with rising volume will buy rug patterns with the same enthusiasm, which is why ripr puts its risk warnings on the coin page and inside the buy flow, the two places where the decision actually happens.

How to judge a Solana trading bot before you fund it

Judge any Solana trading bot on five things, roughly in this order.

Which wallet signs. A tool that asks for your recovery phrase is asking for control of everything in that wallet. Never paste a recovery phrase into a chat window, a website or a DM.
What each trade costs. Find that number before you fund anything, and check where the tool shows it to you. The trade sheet in ripr's iOS and Android apps lists the network fee, any router fee and the refundable account deposit before you confirm, and the help centre sets out what a trade is charged.
Which venues it reads. Solana coins trade on bonding curves and in pool venues, so a tool that reads only one of those sees only part of the market. The screener in ripr filters coins by 12 trading venues and by launchpad.
What it shows you before the buy. Rules are blind to context. The app flags known rug patterns, such as a creator holding unlocked liquidity, liquidity that has already been pulled or a coordinated launch, and says plainly that not seeing a warning never means a coin is safe.
Where it runs. A tool tied to one desktop is no help when a coin moves while you are out. ripr comes as native iOS and Android apps as well as a web app, so the coin pages and the buy flow are wherever you are.

How to scan for coins on ripr

Scanning on ripr starts in Explore, which lists trending, newly launched and upcoming coins and keeps your watchlists, on web, iOS and Android. That is the same list a bot's scanner would be reading for you.

The screener is where a filter becomes numbers. It has range filters for market cap, liquidity, volume, holders, age and the day's buy and sell counts, plus filters for trading venue and launchpad: the same ranges you would hand a bot. The market-cap sort carries a guard, too, because coins under $5,000 of liquidity or 100 holders are hidden unless you set those bounds yourself, so a dead coin cannot top the list.

Trending ranks coins on how fast trades, volume and distinct buyers are growing, and lowers coins whose activity looks manipulated. Turn on Explore's Hide warnings filter and the coins ripr has flagged stay out of the list.

Those numbers carry real signal. One coin around fifteen hours old showed about 59,000 buys against 51,000 sells since launch in ripr's market data, roughly 2,900 holders, around $53,000 of liquidity, and its top ten holders on about a fifth of the supply held in wallets. Two-sided flow and a spread-out holder list are what a scan is looking for, and a figure out of line there is what a blind rule misses.

How to check a coin and buy it on ripr

Checking and buying happen on the same screen in ripr. Search for a coin by name, ticker or full contract address: a contract address is a coin's unique ID on Solana, and pasting it in full is the surest way to land on the coin you meant rather than a copy with the same ticker. The same address opens on Solana Explorer if you want a second look.

Then read three things. The rug-pattern warnings appear in the buy flow as well as on the coin page. Each coin shows how much of the supply the top 10 holders, the top 50 and the creator hold, with pools and vaults left out. And the buy and sell counts show whether anyone is on the other side. How to spot a risky meme coin before you buy goes through the rest of the check.

Set your slippage before you tap. Slippage is the worst price you will accept on a trade, and Auto slippage sets that maximum from how much the coin moved in the last five minutes, between 3% and 15%, or you can set the number yourself. Before your wallet signs, the app checks the prepared transaction on your device against the amount, slippage and fee limits you set, and refuses it if anything differs. That is a check on the trade itself, not on the coin.

The buy itself is the short part. On iOS the quick-trade bar on a coin's page buys at your usual size in one tap, and on desktop web the chart has a buy button that trades in one click at a pre-filled amount. The help centre walks through how to buy a coin on ripr step by step. Start small, and keep a little SOL spare for the network fee.

How to automate your exit on ripr

The exit is the job ripr will run for you. Drag a take-profit line and a stop-loss line onto the chart and those levels trigger a sell while the app, or the desktop coin page, is open, so leave the coin on screen while the lines are armed.

On iOS and Android the chart draws your entry line and trade markers alongside those draggable lines, so your exit levels sit on the same screen as the price. Choosing the levels is its own skill: when to sell a meme coin and take profits covers that.

Alerts handle the watching. Notifications cover dozens of event types, from replies and follows to price and launch alerts, capped at 8 pushes an hour and 25 a day so your phone stays usable. On iOS and Android you can also follow a narrative, ripr's name for a theme several coins share, and get a push when it turns Hot or moves sharply.

Keeping score closes the loop. The iOS and Android apps show your realized and open profit and loss over the last 7 or 30 days. That is the number that tells you whether a rule is worth keeping, the one question a bot cannot answer for you.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best Solana trading bot?

There is no single answer, because Solana trading bots differ most in what matters to you: which wallet signs, what each trade costs, how many venues they read and what they show you before the buy. Work down those checks with your own trade size in mind. On ripr you can run all four jobs yourself in one app: the scan, the entry, the exit and the review.

Do I need to code to use a Solana trading bot?

Most Solana trading bots need no code from you: you set filters and levels in a chat interface or a web form. Writing your own script mainly buys flexibility. Nothing in ripr needs code either, since the scan filters, the slippage setting and the take-profit and stop-loss lines are all screens.

What do Solana trading bots charge?

Most take a percentage of every trade placed through them, and Solana's own small network fee applies either way. Ask where that percentage is shown before you fund anything. In ripr the trade sheet on iOS and Android lists the fees on a trade before you confirm, and the help centre sets out what a trade is charged.

Which Solana venues should a trading bot cover?

Enough of them that your filter sees the whole market: Solana coins start on bonding curves and later trade in pool venues, which behave differently. The screener in ripr filters by 12 trading venues and by four named launchpads, so you can scan one venue family or all of them at once.

Start with one job

Pick the job that costs you the most right now. If it is finding coins, build one screener filter in Explore and save a watchlist from it. If it is holding on too long, put a take-profit and a stop-loss line on your next position and leave the app open. All four jobs are easier to judge, and to hand over, once you have run each of them by hand.

Last verified 3 November 2026. This article is published by ripr, which builds an app for trading Solana coins. Nothing here is financial advice.