What Is PumpStriker? How the Solana Memecoin Bot Works

Read this first. Before you install anything, spend 5 minutes understanding what PumpStriker actually does. The rest of the guide will make 10x more sense.

🌐 Official site: pumpstriker.fun

The 30-second explanation

PumpStriker is 3 small programs that work together to find good Solana memecoins, fire signals to your Telegram, and execute trades automatically:

They talk to each other over your own computer. Nothing leaves your machine except the Telegram messages and the blockchain trades.

How it actually works

New token launches on PumpFun
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Helius WebSocket tells the Engine in ~100ms
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Engine runs 10 safety checks (rug-killers)
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Engine scores 5 dimensions (BuyPressure, Volume, Velocity, MCap, Liquidity)
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Engine adds bonuses (Holder Band, Alpha Co-Buy, Twitter Velocity)
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If score ≥ your threshold → fire a signal
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Telegram Bot posts a card with Buy buttons
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You tap "Buy 0.05 SOL"
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Smart Router picks the best venue (PumpFun / PumpSwap / Jupiter)
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Helius Sender broadcasts MEV-protected
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Position Monitor watches every 5 seconds
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Auto-sell when TP / SL / Trailing Stop hits

From token launch to scored signal: ~300ms. From signal to confirmed buy: ~3-5 seconds.

The 10 rug-killers

These are the automatic blocks. If a token trips any one of them, score = 0 and you never see it:

1. INVISIBLE_RUG, has market cap but no liquidity (classic rug pattern)
2. LOW_LIQ_DEAD, liquidity under $500 + no recent volume
3. HONEYPOT, lots of buys, basically zero sells (you can't exit)
4. FREEZE_AUTH not revoked, dev can freeze your tokens
5. MINT_AUTH not revoked, dev can print infinite supply
6. Sell tax > 10%, you lose 10%+ every sell
7. WASH_TRADING, symmetrical bot patterns (fake volume)
8. WICK_FAKEOUT, fake pump followed by sell pressure
9. BUBBLE_MAP, dev or top 10 holders own too much
10. RUGCHECK_FLAG, RugCheck's risk score crosses the critical threshold, or the token is marked rugged

The 5 scoring dimensions

If a token survives the kills, it's scored 0-100 on:

These five dimensions are how the score is graded. The signals behind them come from six families of on-chain and social data: smart money, order flow and ignition, size and context, safety and holders, behaviour, and social and launch (the homepage engine section shows all six).

The higher the score, the bigger the signal tier. Tiers 4+ auto-fire to your Telegram.

What runs where

YOUR COMPUTER (or VPS)
├── The Engine (Node.js process, scans + scores)
├── The Telegram Bot (Node.js process, talks to Telegram)
└── The Dashboard (web page on localhost:3000)

INTERNET
├── Telegram (free messaging, you already use it)
├── Helius RPC (Solana blockchain access, free tier OK)
├── QuickNode RPC (backup Solana access)
├── GMGN / RugCheck (token safety + holder data)
└── Jupiter / PumpFun (where the actual trades happen)

You'll set up free accounts on each of those internet services in the next chapter. None of them ever see your private key.

What you do NOT need

• ❌ No coding
• ❌ No Discord servers full of "alpha calls"
• ❌ No paid Telegram channels
• ❌ No copying random wallets
• ❌ No exchanges (Binance, Coinbase, etc.)
• ❌ No KYC anywhere except optional Google Cloud signup

What you DO need

• ✅ A computer (any: Windows, Mac, Linux) or a VPS
• ✅ An internet connection
• ✅ A Telegram account
• ✅ A Solana wallet you can fund (the bot creates one for you, or you import yours)
• ✅ ~1.5 hours of focus
• ✅ The chapters of this guide, read in order

➡️ Next chapter: 2. Get Your API Keys, we sign up for the free services PumpStriker needs.