What priority fee to set for a Solana trade on ripr

If you came here to find out what priority fee you should use for a fast Solana trade, the answer on ripr is short: there isn't one for you to pick. Every trade the app prepares carries Solana's base network fee, with no priority fee attached, so that part is settled before the trade sheet reaches you. What you still decide is the slippage you allow, the size you send and whether the fees in front of you are ones you accept.

That makes this a shorter decision than most traders expect. Here is what it looks like on a coin that is moving.

What priority fee should I use for a fast Solana trade?

None: ripr sends trades with Solana's base network fee and no priority fee, so a trade you confirm carries no bid you chose. A priority fee is an optional extra a Solana transaction can attach to ask for earlier attention from the validator building the block, and it sits alongside the base network fee every Solana transaction pays. That bid is simply not part of a trade here.

There is a guard on the other side of it too. The app refuses any prepared trade whose network fee is above the ceiling it allows, so a trade cannot reach your wallet with an inflated fee attached.

The fee you do pay is the trading fee, and it is the same whether the coin is calm or running. The help centre sets out what ripr charges during trading: a total 1% swap fee on buys and sells, with the network's own fee charged separately at transaction time.

What you are deciding when you confirm a trade

On ripr the real decision point is the trade sheet, not a fee you bid. The in-house execution layer prepares each trade transaction on its server, the app then checks it on your device against the amount and slippage you chose, and your own wallet signs it. If anything in the prepared transaction differs from what you asked for, the app refuses it. That check covers the shape of the transaction, not whether the coin itself is any good.

So read the sheet instead of hunting for a dial. On iOS and Android it lists the network fee, any router fee and the refundable account deposit before you confirm.

1. The amount. The SOL going out, or the tokens coming in.
2. The slippage. The price change you are willing to accept.
3. The fees listed. The trading fee and the network's own fee.
4. The deposit. Your first buy of a coin opens a token account with a refundable deposit of about 0.0015 SOL, which comes back when the account closes.

Our step-by-step walkthrough of how to buy a Solana meme coin on ripr covers the same sheet in order.

Set your slippage, not a fee

Slippage is the number worth your attention on a fast-moving coin, and on ripr it is the one the trade sheet puts in your hands. Auto slippage sets your maximum slippage from how much the coin moved in the last five minutes, between 3% and 15%, and it is on by default. You can also set the figure yourself.

The last five minutes matter more than the last day. In ripr's market data, one Solana coin had moved about 36% over the past hour but only a small fraction of that in the five minutes before the reading, while another had moved about 28% in five minutes alone. Auto slippage sits low in its range on the first kind of coin and at the top of the range on the second.

That maximum is a stop, not a target. If the price runs past the figure you allowed, nothing is bought: ripr tells you the price moved more than your max slippage and that only the network fee was spent, then leaves you to raise the maximum or try again. On a coin that is running, that is the limit doing its job. The help centre goes further on how to set slippage on ripr.

What happens to your trade after you confirm

Once you sign, ripr takes over the sending. Signed trades go out through its own relay to its in-house Solana node, and if that relay is unavailable the app sends them through a standard RPC instead.

From there the app keeps your signed trade in flight for up to about a minute and follows its status live until it confirms or provably expires. Because it is the same signature the whole time, the trade can only ever fill once. You watch a status rather than wonder what happened.

Where a priority fee does appear

Launching a coin on ripr is where a priority fee does form part of the transaction. The launch steps each carry a small priority fee, counted inside the launch's own cost allowance along with rent and network costs, so a creator does not budget for it as a separate line. Our guide to how to launch a meme coin on ripr walks through the rest of that flow.

Frequently asked questions

What is a priority fee on Solana?

A priority fee is an optional amount a Solana transaction can attach to ask for earlier attention from the validator that builds the block. It is separate from the base network fee, which every Solana transaction pays. On ripr, trades are sent with the base network fee and no priority fee.

What fees does the trade sheet show before I confirm?

On iOS and Android, the trade sheet in the ripr app lists the network fee, any router fee and the refundable account deposit before you confirm. The trading fee is a total 1% swap fee on both buys and sells, and the Solana network's own fee is charged separately at transaction time.

Does launching a coin on ripr include a priority fee?

Yes. Launch steps each carry a small priority fee, and it is counted inside the launch's own cost allowance rather than charged to the creator separately. Trades are different: the app sends those with the base network fee alone, and no priority fee.

What should I set before buying a fast-moving coin?

Your slippage and your size are the two to decide. Auto slippage in the ripr app already sets a maximum from the coin's movement over the last five minutes, between 3% and 15%, and you can set your own figure instead. A smaller order on a thin coin asks less of the pool than a large one.

Where to go next

A fast Solana trade on ripr starts with preparation rather than a fee you pick. Three things are in your hands: a slippage you understand, a size you can afford to be wrong about, and a trade sheet you read before you sign.

Open a coin from ripr's Explore and look at the page before you reach the trade sheet. The coin page carries rule-based rug-pattern warnings before you buy, and the app says plainly that not seeing one never means a coin is safe, so read them on anything new. Start small enough that a bad fill is a lesson rather than a loss, keep some SOL spare for the network's own fee, and for the wider list of mistakes to dodge, read how to avoid losing money on meme coins.

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