How we rank bots and trackers

Trading bot numbers = public usage

Each card is numbered by the trailing 30-day fees recorded by DefiLlama, which tracks inflows to on-chain fee wallets. The figures are pulled from DefiLlama’s public API every week; latest update: 9 November 2026.

• Fees measure activity, not quality. A heavily used bot can still be a poor fit for you.
• The total covers every chain a bot runs on, Solana and EVM (Ethereum, Base, BSC and others) together. Each review states the EVM share when DefiLlama breaks it down.
• The pages for one chain (Solana, Base, BNB Chain, Ethereum, and the pump.fun snipers) rank by the fees on that chain alone. A bot DefiLlama does not measure on that chain comes after the others, marked “Not measured”.
• When DefiLlama does not track a bot (Sigma) or its figure is visibly broken (Banana Gun), the card says so and the bot is numbered last or at its reported value.

Every figure behind the card numbers, month by month and with CSV downloads, is in the DegenBench trading bot statistics.

Wallet tracker numbers = documented coverage

Trackers earn most of their money from subscriptions, so no public usage figure compares them fairly. Our editor’s pick opens the series as #01. The other cards are numbered by documented coverage: one point each for Solana, EVM chains, alerts pushed outside the app (Telegram, Discord, webhook), a free tier, and every documented feature (real-time alerts, wallet PnL, labels, wallet discovery, holder analysis, quick buy, API, mobile app).

Token scanner numbers = documented coverage

Token scanners are mostly free and publish no comparable usage figure, so their cards are numbered by documented coverage: one point each for Solana, EVM chains, a free tier, every documented check (mint and freeze authority, liquidity, top holders, snipers and insiders, creator history, honeypot simulation, linked-wallet map, risk score) and every documented feature. No scanner can prove a token is safe; they only surface known risks.

Perp exchange numbers = real 30-day volume

Perp exchanges publish their trading volume on-chain, so their cards follow trailing 30-day perp volume on DefiLlama, all markets together. Venues DefiLlama does not track close the series. Volume can be inflated by points and incentive programs; when an exchange or DefiLlama flags it, the card says so.

Casinos = documented transparency

No public source tracks crypto casino volume: DefiLlama lists none of them and the few counters are self-reported. Casino cards are therefore ordered by a transparency score out of six: operator named, licence number, list of excluded countries, published house edge or fee, verifiable draws and published affiliate terms. Only what the operator publishes counts.

Prediction markets = real 30-day volume

Venues are numbered by trailing 30-day volume on DefiLlama, counted as the amount paid (price × contracts), the convention DefiLlama applies to every venue in the series. One editorial exception, explained on its card: Kalshi has the largest figure but is placed third, after Polymarket US and Polymarket, while its volume is questioned. Wallets and apps that route orders to another venue have no volume of their own and close the series, A–Z. Fees are compared on one trade: 100 contracts bought at 50¢, a $50 stake, the price where most fee formulas peak.

What we check for every bot

Every card carries the same lines. When a bot does not publish one of them, the card says so instead of filling the gap with a guess.

• Official domain or domains
• Trading fee and cashback
• Referral program terms: what a new user gets and what the referrer earns
• Wallet and key model: custodial or not, and whether the key can be exported
• Interfaces (web, Telegram, app) and supported chains
• Features: new-pair sniping, limit orders, copy trading, wallet tracking, MEV protection, multi-wallet, DCA, perps
• Security incidents

Sources

We start with official documentation: docs sites, FAQs and fee pages. DefiLlama supplies the usage figures, and named media outlets are used for security incidents. Every review lists its sources and the date it was checked.

Evidence levels

Two labels appear on the cards, and they do not mean the same thing.

• Checked against official docs — what the site publishes today, read and dated by us.
• Hands-on tested — not claimed for any bot yet. We do not execute real trades just to produce marketing evidence.

What we don’t do

• No paid placements
• Commission never changes a card number or a verdict
• Anything unknown stays marked “Not published / not confirmed”
• No profit promises and no performance claims