Editing Trojan

**Trojan** is a Telegram trading bot for [[Solana]] tokens, run by the team that built the Solana version of Unibot, and by fees the largest Telegram bot of 2024 and early 2025.[^1][^2][^3]

## History
Unibot, an Ethereum Telegram bot launched in May 2023, added Solana in January 2024. On 11 March 2024 its Ethereum developers ended the partnership with the Solana group, accusing it of breaking earlier agreements; the Solana side, through a developer called Reethmos, said users would not be affected and announced a rebrand. The UNIBOT token fell more than 40% that day.[^1] The Solana group's bot became Trojan, which paid 50% of its revenue to Unibot holders by a pre-split snapshot and reserved the rest for holders of a future Trojan token.[^2]

## How it works
Users trade inside Telegram: they paste a token's contract address into the bot, which buys the amount set. Memecoin traders use such bots because they are faster than a decentralized exchange's website; fees ran from 0.5% to 1% per trade in March 2024.[^2]

## Notable events
On 25 March 2024 DL News reported that Trojan, BONKbot and Banana Gun had together generated over $725,000 in fees in 24 hours, a week after Telegram bots peaked at over $700 million in daily volume.[^2] In April 2025 Cointelegraph counted Trojan among the top five Telegram bots by historical volume and said it had received about $109 million in fees over six months, the most of any bot.[^3] Web terminals then took the lead: by July 2025 [[Axiom]] held 72% of Solana trading-bot volume, ahead of [[BullX]] and [[Photon]].[^4]

## Timeline
- 2024-01: Unibot launches on Solana[^1]
- 2024-03-11: Unibot's Ethereum and Solana teams split[^1]
- 2024-03-18: Telegram bots peak above $700 million in daily volume[^2]
- 2025-04-22: Cointelegraph reports about $109 million in Trojan fees over six months[^3]

## See also
- [[GMGN]]
- [[Moonshot]]
- [[DEX Screener]]
- [[Jito]]
- [[Copy trading]]

## References
1. [Unibot token slumps 40% amid schism between project's Ethereum and Solana devs](https://www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/unibot-devs-tussle-as-ethereum-team-splits-from-solana-group/), DL News, 2024-03-11
2. [Here's why these Telegram trading bots are surging with over $5m in revenue in one day](https://www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/telegram-bots-gain-in-popularity-with-more-memecoin-trading/), DL News, 2024-03-25
3. [A guide to crypto trading bots: Analyzing strategies and performance](https://cointelegraph.com/magazine/guide-crypto-trading-bots-strategies-performance), Cointelegraph Magazine, 2025-04-22
4. [Solana bot platform Axiom takes over AI coder Cursor with $150m revenue fuelled by airdrop hype](https://www.dlnews.com/articles/defi/solana-bot-axiom-takes-over-cursor-with-150m-revenue/), DL News, 2025-07-07