BONKbot not working?
BONKbot is still collecting fees, so it is not fully offline, but at $79K over 30 days it is running 99.6% below its peak. Thin usage usually means thin support.
Figures as of August 23, 2026 (UTC). Source: DefiLlama › BONKbot. Series starts 2023-08-23.
BONKbot took $79K in fees over the last 30 days, 99.6% below its peak 30-day window of $18.9M. Money is still moving through it, but the trend is down.
How to tell a dead product from a dead transaction
A trading bot's fee take is on-chain. If it is collecting fees in the last 24 hours, someone somewhere is trading through it successfully. That single fact separates the two situations you might be in:
- Fees are flowing and your trade failed. The product is up. Look at your transaction hash on the block explorer. If it landed and reverted, the chain rejected it: slippage, balance, priority fee, or a token that blocks transfers. If it never landed, it expired in the mempool, which usually means your priority fee was too low.
- Fees have gone to zero. Either the product stopped, or its fee routing moved to a wallet the public adapter does not track. Both look identical from outside. We will not tell you which without evidence.
Things that look like the bot breaking and are not
- Slippage. A default slippage of 1 to 5% will fail constantly on a token moving 40% a minute. Raising it makes fills happen and makes them worse.
- Priority fees. When the chain is busy, the fee that worked last week gets you dropped this week.
- Honeypot tokens. A token whose contract blocks selling will let you buy and then fail every sell. That failure is the token, not the bot.
- Rate limits. Telegram bots share an upstream RPC. Under load your command queues behind everyone else's.
If you are looking for somewhere else to go
Ranked by trailing 30-day fee take, largest first. This is where trading volume currently is. It is not a recommendation and it is not a claim any of them will work better for you.
| Tool | Fees, 30d | 30d change | Status | 14-month shape |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Axiom Web terminal · Solana, BSC · status · source |
$32.6M | +60.1% | Growing | |
| GMGN Web + Telegram · Solana, Ethereum, Base, BSC and more · status · source |
$26.6M | +43.5% | Growing | |
| fomo Mobile wallet · Solana · source |
$11.5M | +112% | Growing |
All figures as of August 23, 2026 (UTC). Sources: Axiom, GMGN, fomo.
Questions
Is BONKbot down right now?
As of August 23, 2026, BONKbot collected $2.2K in fees over the previous 24 hours and $17K over the previous 7 days. Non-zero fee take means trades are settling on-chain, which means the core product is not fully offline. It does not rule out a broken feature or a regional issue.
BONKbot says transaction failed. What causes that?
Most failures in this category are not the bot. The common causes are insufficient balance for the priority fee, slippage set below what the pool actually moved, a token with transfer restrictions, or network congestion causing the transaction to expire before it lands. Check the transaction hash on the chain explorer first: if it exists and reverted, the bot submitted it and the chain rejected it.
Is BONKbot abandoned?
BONKbot took $79K in fees over the last 30 days, 99.6% below its peak 30-day window of $18.9M. Money is still moving through it, but the trend is down.
Should I move my funds?
If you hold a balance inside a custodial bot wallet and the product's usage is collapsing, the risk you are carrying is that support and infrastructure get wound down while your funds sit there. That is a judgement call, not something a fee chart can decide for you. What the chart can tell you is the direction: BONKbot is down -29.7% month over month.