What it does
Banana Gun is a Telegram sniper and trading bot. You send a contract address to a chat and it handles the buy, so you are not connecting a wallet to a DEX in a browser during a launch. It covers Ethereum, Solana, BNB Chain, Base and MegaETH from one session.
Where Maestro competes on chain count, Banana Gun competes on execution quality: MEV protection on by default, a simulation before every trade to catch honeypots, and a strong first-block hit rate on Ethereum snipes.
Why people use it
- MEV protection by default on every trade, on every chain, not an opt-in setting.
- Pre-trade simulation that catches honeypots before your money moves.
- Cheaper manual buys on Ethereum at 0.5%, against the 1% most competitors charge.
- Free stablecoin swaps in USDT, USDC and DAI across EVM chains.
- Buy, sell, DCA and copy trade in one window.
- Fee sharing: 40% of platform trading fees go to BANANA holders automatically.
How to use it
- Open Banana Gun in Telegram using the button above and check you are on the official bot.
- Send
/startto create your wallet, then back up the keys immediately. - Fund it with the native token of the chain you want to trade.
- Paste a token contract address to open a buy panel, or set up a snipe before launch.
- Set slippage and priority fees before you need them, not mid-launch.
Commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
/start |
Open the bot and create your wallet |
/snipe |
Arm a snipe on a token before it launches |
/buy |
Buy a token by contract address |
/sell |
Sell part or all of a position |
/positions |
Review open positions |
/copytrade |
Mirror a wallet you choose |
/settings |
Slippage, priority fees, and MEV options |
/wallets |
Manage your bot wallets |
Fees
| Action | Fee |
|---|---|
| Manual buy or limit order, Ethereum | 0.5% |
| Auto-sniper, Ethereum | 1% |
| Stablecoin swaps (USDT, USDC, DAI) on EVM chains | Free |
Fee tiers and chain support change regularly. Treat this as a snapshot and confirm inside the bot before trading size.
Risks worth knowing
Banana Gun holds a wallet for you, which means your private key sits on their infrastructure. That is the trade-off across every Telegram trading bot, and Banana Gun has an incident that shows what it means in practice.
In September 2024, an exploit in the Telegram message oracle let attackers drain roughly $3 million from 11 users. The bug was patched, and every affected user was fully reimbursed from the treasury without selling tokens. The handling was better than most, but the episode is the clearest illustration of the category's core risk.
Sensible practice:
- Keep only trading funds in the bot and sweep profits to a wallet you control.
- Never paste a seed phrase into a bot.
- Verify the bot handle. Clone bots exist to steal keys.
- Sniping launches is the highest-risk activity in crypto, and most new tokens go to zero.
Behind the app
Banana Gun is an independent trading bot project with its own BANANA token and a public blog at bananagun.io. It is not affiliated with Telegram.
