TG Bots/Trading Apps

Telegram bots and trading apps have shifted from niche tools to a core revenue engine for crypto in under two years. During the week ending 2 February 2025, fees for these services reached almost $100 million, roughly 20 percent of all crypto protocol revenue for that period. Even after the frenzy cooled, the category still earns close to $40 million each week, showing the lasting appeal of one-click trading inside social apps.

Headline Metrics

Peak weekly fees: $98.7 m (week ending 2 Feb 2025)

Current four-week average fees: $42m

Share of total crypto fees (latest four weeks): 6 to 8 percent

Peak weekly on-chain volume: $46b (week ending 17 Feb 2025)

How the business model works

Fee structure: Most bots charge a flat 1 percent per trade, then return 20 to 35 percent of that fee to referrers.

Distribution: Bots live inside Telegram chats or dedicated frontends, so users never leave the app; this drives conversion rates and daily active wallets that traditional dApps struggle to match.

Network effects: Each new memecoin launchpad, especially Pump.fun, is integrated within hours, keeping bots at the center of every narrative cycle.

Token incentives: Many operators plan governance or revenue-sharing tokens, a playbook that previously boosted Unibot and Banana Gun.

Why revenue surged to almost $20 million a day

January’s memecoin season on Solana lit the fuse. Launchpad Pump.fun collected $14 million in fees on 2 January 2025 and drove more than half of Solana DEX transactions that week. Traders routed that flow into sniping bots such as BullX, Trojan, BONKbot, and Maestro; on several February days those four bots together earned more than Ethereum. The combination of a frictionless token factory and one-click execution created a feedback loop that pushed weekly bot revenue toward the $100 million peak shown in the dashboard.

Axiom’s rapid ascent

Leadership has already rotated. Axiom, launched by the PVP.trade team, mixes spot sniping, Hyperliquid perpetuals, and copy-trading in one Telegram front end. By early May it captured nearly 58 percent of Solana trading-bot volume, about $4.3 billion over two months, and now tops Solana’s revenue charts. Low-latency order routing, an aggressive referral rebate, and access to perpetuals unavailable in Uniswap-style bots have made Axiom the default option for power users.

Current state after the blow-off top

Weekly bot fees have settled between $30 million and $50 million, still several times higher than mid-2024 averages and high enough to fund continuous product upgrades. Several bots remain among the global top-twenty protocols by revenue alongside Uniswap and Aave. Pump.fun revenue has cooled roughly 90 percent from its January high to about $800 000 a day; however, it continues to be the largest fee contributor on Solana, proving that launchpad activity can sustain a meaningful floor for bot usage even in quieter markets.