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Solana Pump.fun Bot Tutorial — Sniping New Tokens & Adding Market Making Logic

Sniping new Pump.fun tokens is the easy part. Keeping the bag alive after the first candles is where almost everyone fails. This tutorial walks through how a Solana Pump.fun bot is structured, how to snipe new tokens early, and how to bolt on market making logic so you’re not just another degen exit liquidity machine.

We’ll focus on architecture and strategy – not copy-paste scam code. You’ll see how a Pump.fun sniper can plug into a non-custodial MM console like Solana MM Pro, using per-wallet risk and Jupiter / Raydium routing once the token graduates off the bonding curve.

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Tutorial at a glance
  • How Pump.fun snipers see launches early.
  • Safe per-wallet sniper architecture.
  • How to add market making logic after the snipe.
Environment
Solana mainnet
Pump.fun · Jupiter · Raydium

1. What a Solana Pump.fun sniper bot actually does

At a high level, a Pump.fun sniper watches the Pump.fun program for new token launches and tries to buy the token on the first few curve steps before the crowd sees it. From a technical perspective, it needs to:

  • Listen to new Pump.fun token events (using program logs, indexers or official APIs).
  • Filter launches by simple rules (creator, name, metadata, initial liquidity, etc.).
  • Construct and send a local buy transaction against Pump.fun’s bonding curve with a chosen SOL size.
  • Optionally sell partially later to derisk, and then run ongoing MM logic instead of panicking.

This tutorial is not about abusing inside flow – it’s about formalizing what many degens already do and wiring it into a per-wallet, non-custodial architecture where you can actually track PnL.

If you haven’t yet, read: How Solana Volume Bots Work and Pump.fun Market Making Bot for Solana for the bigger volume / MM context.

2. Safe Pump.fun sniper architecture with per-wallet design

Before you talk about sniping logic, you design where risk lives. The safest architecture mirrors the non-custodial console model:

A. Sniper wallet, not main wallet

  • Create a dedicated sniper wallet just for Pump.fun snipes.
  • Fund it with a fixed amount of SOL (your total risk budget).
  • Never use your main cold wallet or treasury wallet as the bot’s signer.
  • In a console setup, this wallet can be registered as a Client “Sniper” MM wallet.

B. Clear risk caps per snipe

  • Define max SOL per snipe (e.g. 0.2–0.5 SOL for more attempts).
  • Define max daily snipes and stop once you hit it.
  • Optionally limit max SOL locked per token after initial buy.
  • In a console, this maps to max daily notional & max base/quote per client.

The core idea: your Pump.fun sniper is just another MM strategy attached to a dedicated wallet, not something that can freely spend your entire stack.

3. Sniping logic on Pump.fun – from event to first buy

Once the wallet and risk model are set, the sniper’s “brain” is straightforward. In high-level pseudocode:

listenToPumpfunLaunches() .on("newToken", async (token) => { // 1. Basic filters if (!passesNameFilter(token.name)) return; if (!passesCreatorFilter(token.creator)) return; if (!passesLiquidityFilter(token.initLiquidity)) return; // 2. Compute buy size based on wallet balance & risk const solBalance = await getSolBalance(sniperWallet); const maxPerSnipe = config.maxSnipeSol; const size = Math.min(solBalance * config.sizePct, maxPerSnipe); if (size < config.minSnipeSol) return; // 3. Build & send Pump.fun buy transaction const tx = await buildPumpfunBuyTx({ mint: token.mint, amountSol: size, priorityFee: config.jitoTipSol }); const sig = await sendAndConfirm(sniperWallet, tx); logSnipe({ mint: token.mint, sizeSol: size, sig }); // 4. Optional: schedule MM strategy setup for this token scheduleAttachMMStrategy(token.mint); });

In a full Solana MM setup, step 4 (“scheduleAttachMMStrategy”) is where you hand over to your non-custodial console: once a snipe succeeds, the token is added as a new client/strategy with proper MM parameters.

4. Adding market making logic after the snipe

Most degens stop at “I sniped early, now I pray”. If you want to operate like an MM instead of pure retail, you add a second phase: post-snipe market making.

A. Post-snipe checklist

  • Record the mint address, entry price estimate and size.
  • Decide whether this token is:
    • a quick flip (no MM, just risk-managed exits), or
    • a candidate for light MM support (micro-buys/sells, curve support).
  • If yes to MM, register it as a client token in your MM console.

B. Attaching an MM strategy

In a console like MM Pro, this means:

  • Create a client “TokenXYZ Pump.fun”.
  • Set router to pump while token is Bonding-Curve-only.
  • Define spread, base size and buy/sell % bands around your target inventory.
  • Add max daily notional and max base exposure so it can’t overtrade.

Over time, you’ll have a “ladder” of tokens: snipes that became quick flips, and snipes that graduated into full MM clients with their own wallets, strategies and PnL history.

5. Migrating from Pump.fun to Raydium/Jupiter routing

At some point, your Pump.fun token will either:

  • graduate to a pool (PumpSwap, Raydium, etc.), or
  • die quietly on the curve and become uninteresting.

For the few that survive, it makes sense to pivot from Pump.fun-only logic to DEX-based MM:

Routing migration

  • Once a Raydium or other DEX pool exists, update strategy:
    • router = auto or jup (use Jupiter to hit Raydium & others).
    • Adjust base/quote mints to match the DEX pair (e.g. token/USDC).
  • Your Pump.fun sniper wallet now behaves like any other DEX MM wallet.

Risk & inventory adjustment

  • Derisk some of the initial snipe (take some profit, free up SOL).
  • Decide on target inventory for long-term MM (e.g. 20–40% of initial bag).
  • Tighten spreads if the pool grows deep enough to justify it.

For deeper routing nuance, see Jupiter vs Raydium for Solana Market Making.

6. Safety, ethics & avoiding obvious scam behavior

Pump.fun and Solana meme trading are already under the microscope for rugs and manipulation. If you run bots on top, it’s worth avoiding the worst patterns:

  • Don’t build bots that drain other people’s wallets or abuse approvals.
  • Don’t spin insane wash loops just to post fake “$10M volume” screenshots.
  • Don’t run custodial “MM for others” unless you are prepared to be treated like a financial service.
  • Do be honest with your community that you use market making to avoid dead charts, not to exit scam them.

A sniper + MM console setup like the one described here is about structuring your risk and liquidity, not about stealing from people. Keep it that way.

7. Where a console like Solana MM Pro fits in

If you already have (or plan to build) a Pump.fun sniper bot, a console like Solana MM Pro becomes the control tower for everything after “tx confirmed”:

  • Register your sniper wallet as a client MM wallet.
  • Whenever the bot snipes a mint, auto-create an MM strategy for that token.
  • Use the console to tune spreads, size and routing and to watch fee PnL over time.
  • Later migrate surviving memes to full Raydium/Jupiter MM profiles when pools exist.

That’s how you move from “just degen sniping” to a structured Solana meme MM operation that can handle many tokens, many wallets and many cycles.